There are dogs in Knight's Fee, too. Yes - Blue Remembered Hills was the book my mum read and enjoyed. (I do miss the wonderful book talks I used to have with my mum...). I shall have to look for it again (it's even possible I have a copy rattling about the place somewhere). I don't really associate Connie Willis with dogs?? (oh, duh, except for To Say Nothing, of course, and, oh, The Last of the Winnebagos, - sob - so, yes, I suppose)

And, oh my - homoeroticism much??? (the cover, the cover!)