Charlotte Sometimes
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer is a reissue published by New York Review of Books on May 9, 2017. This 208-page book presents a time-travel story that explores themes of identity and suspense. The narrative follows Charlotte Makepeace, who, after her first night at boarding school, discovers that everyone believes she is a girl named Clare Mobley and that she has inexplicably traveled back to 1918. As Charlotte navigates her new reality, she grapples with the challenges of adapting to a different time and the complexities of being perceived as someone else.
Readers will find that Charlotte’s journey alternates between her own time and Clare’s, leading her to confront the difficulties of fitting into a world that feels foreign. The story delves into her struggles with identity as she faces misunderstandings from teachers and peers alike. With elements of juvenile fiction and science fiction, this book invites readers to reflect on the nature of self and belonging while engaging with the suspense of Charlotte’s predicament.
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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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