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A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new kid, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months that follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.
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3 primary booksAviary Hall is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 1962 with contributions by Penelope Farmer.
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She was crying and crying for a girl who had died more than forty years before, whom, in any normal world, to any normal way of thinking, she could not possibly have known; whom she had never even seen, though she had lived as her.
Charlotte inexplicably finds herself trading spots in time and space with a girl named Clare. Back and forth the two girls go, trading, returning, trading again, returning again, on and on.
I was disappointed, I think, as I was hoping for a deeper story, something more than simply occupying a bed with wheels, and...
SPOILER ALERT...SPOILER ALERT...SPOILER ALERT...
...a richer and more satisfying ending.
It is interesting, I read this book in Swedish some 20 years ago, and I wouldn't have recognized it.
It is more melancholy than I remember it. I also didn't remember Emily at all.
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