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Charlotte Sometimes
By (Author) Penelope Farmer
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Puffin
20th August 2019
6th June 2019
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
272
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 16mm
194g
An award-winning timeslip novel perfect for A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school. Before she goes to sleep, she sees from the window a corner of the new building. But when she wakes up, instead of the building there is a huge, dark cedar tree, and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who slept there last night. She calls Charlotte 'Clare', and says she is her younger sister Emily. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years to 1918 and the end of the First World War. Charlotte and Clare swap places ever night until one day Charlotte becomes trapped in 1918 and must find a way to return to her own time before the end of term.
Penelope Farmer was born in Kent, in 1939, the younger of twin girls. After boarding school and Oxford University she did a variety of jobs, from teaching to working as a filing clerk, followed by a year of social studies at London University. Then she settled down to raise a family and write full time. Over the course of her long career as a writer, she published many novels and short stories for adults and children.