![]() ![]() When Charlotte Makepeace arrives as a new girl at boarding school, she finds herself feeling very apprehensive, but when she is shown to her dormitory by an older pupil who seems kind and friendly, she begins to feel just a little bit better. ![]() Then the The war ends and there is celebration - but what is going to happen to Charlotte? Will she have to grow old in this time, staying there forever? At first it is just an inconvenience, attending each other's classes and doing each other's homework, and they write notes to each other across the decades to try to keep track of it all. ![]() When this happens, Claire is inhabiting Charlotte's body in the 1960s, and they revert back on the next sleep. When she sleeps there, sometimes she wakes up at the same boarding school, but it's now World War I, she is in the body of a different girl called Claire, and there is a little sister present, Emily, who swiftly finds out that Charlotte is an imposter. It is rather old-fashioned and dour, set in a world of darkness and drabness and loss, but the characters are psychologically quite well-written, and it's very realistic in tone.Ĭharlotte starts at a new boarding school in the 1960s, and is put in a special bed. I read this 9+ years timeslip novel for my own pleasure. ![]()
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