A timetravel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity andan absorbing tale of suspense.Its natural to feel a little out of place when youre t... » 

A timetravel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity andan absorbing tale of suspense.Its natural to feel a little out of place when youre the new girl but whenCharlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school shesbaffled everyone thinks shes a girl called Clare Mobley and even moreshockingly it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In themonths to follow Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clares.And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn she also has tocontend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person inan era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think shes slow the other girlsfind her odd and as she spends more and more time in 1918 Charlotte startsto wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesnt figureout some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term shemight never have another chance. «