The time-travelling classic about boarding school life, the First World War and the fear of forgetting who you really are.
"'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?'" Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the routine, and each other -- no one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispers and giggles. But on Charlotte's very first night something mysterious starts to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in...
The time-travelling classic about boarding school life, the First World War and the fear of forgetting who you really are.
It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school, and as she's settling down to sleep, she sees the corner of the new building from her window. 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. Somehow, Charlotte has slipped back forty years to 1918 and has swapped places with a girl called Clare. 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.
It is Charlotte's first night at boarding school, and as she's settling down to sleep, she sees the corner of the new building from her window. Bu...
