Charlotte Sometimes

Informationen zum Autor Penelope Farmer Klappentext Charlotte is new, lonely and far from home. Then she wakes up forty years in the past. Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school is a blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and whispers. All the other girls know the routine and each other. Charlotte feels lonely, uncertain and out of place. Then, on her very first night, something mysterious happens. She wakes in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school, but not in the same time. Somehow Charlotte has slipped back to 1918, where everyone believes she is another girl called Clare. As Charlotte moves between her own time and the final months of the First World War, she must learn how to live another girl's life without losing her own. Charlotte Sometimes is one of the great children's time-slip novels: a boarding-school story shadowed by the First World War. Penelope Farmer captures the strangeness of being new, the ache of being needed by people who do not truly know you, and the fear of being left behind in another girl's life. Zusammenfassung Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Vorwort
The time-travelling classic about boarding school life, the First World War and the fear of forgetting who you really are

Autorentext

Penelope Farmer

Klappentext

Charlotte is new, lonely and far from home. Then she wakes up forty years in the past.

Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school is a blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and whispers. All the other girls know the routine and each other. Charlotte feels lonely, uncertain and out of place.

Then, on her very first night, something mysterious happens. She wakes in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school, but not in the same time. Somehow Charlotte has slipped back to 1918, where everyone believes she is another girl called Clare.

As Charlotte moves between her own time and the final months of the First World War, she must learn how to live another girl's life without losing her own.

Charlotte Sometimes is one of the great children's time-slip novels: a boarding-school story shadowed by the First World War. Penelope Farmer captures the strangeness of being new, the ache of being needed by people who do not truly know you, and the fear of being left behind in another girl's life.

Zusammenfassung
Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time