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| Author | Penelope Farmer |
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| Illustrator | Chris Connor |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
Publication date | 1969 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Preceded by | Emma in Winter |
Charlotte Sometimes is a children's novel by the English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969 in Britain and the United States. It is the third and best-known of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma,[1] sometimes known as the Aviary Hall books.[2] The story follows a girl starting at boarding school who finds one morning she has traveled mysteriously back more than 40 years and is known as Clare. Charlotte and Clare change places each night, alternating between 1918 and Charlotte's time; although Charlotte and Clare never meet, they communicate through diary notes in an exercise book. The story is written from Charlotte's point of view: the narrative never follows Clare. Charlotte becomes trapped in Clare's time, struggling to maintain her identity.
- ^ Anita Silvey, ed: Children's books and their creators (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 238
- ^ Kidlit - Clare Moby, in Aviary Hall books, by Penelope Farmer