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Charlotte Sometimes
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After Charlotte's first night at boarding school, the view from the window has changed and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who was there last night. She is a stranger who calls Charlotte "Clare" and says she's her sister...
198 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1969
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198 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 2002 by Red Fox
- ISBN
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9780099267195
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0099267195
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English
About the author
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Penelope Jane Farmer is an English fiction writer well known for children's fantasy novels. Her best-known novel is Charlotte Sometimes (1969), a boarding-school story that features a multiple time slip.
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This was well worth going back to. I hardly remembered anything about it from when I read it as a child - and of course back then I probably didn’t appreciate how beautiful the descriptive writing is, never at the expense of pace and story.
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An unusual book. It had an old-fashioned feel, like What Katy Did or the All-of-a-Kind Family, but was about a girl who time travels when she sleeps in a certain bed at boarding school. I remember liking it a great deal, at the time, but now can't remember what year it took place and what era she traveled to. WWII?
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I first came across this book as an adult and being a fan of school stories I thought it would be similar to others of the genre. So it was a surprise - a pleasant one - to find out it was about much more than the usual fun on the playing fields and in the dorm kind of thing. The time-travel is central to the plot, of course, but it's the characters of the main players that are the important thing, IMO.
There's a certain eeriness to this book, not surprising given its subject matter,but for those of us who enjoy the unusual it's certainly an interesting read. There's sadness in it too, again not surprising as a lot of the action takes place during the First World War. The ending is happy - or as near happy as is possible in the circumstances. By the time I got to the end I really cared about the characters, even though the book is written in a rather low-key kind of way with no real attempt made to make the characters particularly endearing. Yet it's the girls and their ways of coping with the unexpected and the difficult that make the book so interesting and absorbing and the ending rather touching.
There's a certain eeriness to this book, not surprising given its subject matter,but for those of us who enjoy the unusual it's certainly an interesting read. There's sadness in it too, again not surprising as a lot of the action takes place during the First World War. The ending is happy - or as near happy as is possible in the circumstances. By the time I got to the end I really cared about the characters, even though the book is written in a rather low-key kind of way with no real attempt made to make the characters particularly endearing. Yet it's the girls and their ways of coping with the unexpected and the difficult that make the book so interesting and absorbing and the ending rather touching.
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I will fully admit that I didn't discover this book in the traditional way.
I have to admit to being a HUGE fan of the Cure. Yup. That's 80's quasi-gothy band, lead by Robert Smith. What can I say, I've always liked boys in makeup.
One of my favorite songs by the Cure was always Charlotte Sometimes. I didn't have a clue that the song title was taken from a book, and that lines from the book were used in the song, as well as in the song The Empty World (She talked about the armies, that marched inside her head).
I had just graduated from high school, and was working at a Girl Scout summer camp in Vermont. They had a large building with a stage that had the back wall covered in bookshelves. It was a rainy day so the councilors were letting the kids run amok in the building. Me, being bored to tears by the rain and driven crazy by the kids running amok decided to check out the bookshelves.
The title Charlotte Sometimes caught my eye and grabbed the book to read in my tent later.
Once I read the book, and fell in love with it, I had to get my own copy so I could share it with all of my Cure loving friends.
It's still one of my favorite books, and it still puts me in the mood to listen to the Cure.
I have to admit to being a HUGE fan of the Cure. Yup. That's 80's quasi-gothy band, lead by Robert Smith. What can I say, I've always liked boys in makeup.
One of my favorite songs by the Cure was always Charlotte Sometimes. I didn't have a clue that the song title was taken from a book, and that lines from the book were used in the song, as well as in the song The Empty World (She talked about the armies, that marched inside her head).
I had just graduated from high school, and was working at a Girl Scout summer camp in Vermont. They had a large building with a stage that had the back wall covered in bookshelves. It was a rainy day so the councilors were letting the kids run amok in the building. Me, being bored to tears by the rain and driven crazy by the kids running amok decided to check out the bookshelves.
The title Charlotte Sometimes caught my eye and grabbed the book to read in my tent later.
Once I read the book, and fell in love with it, I had to get my own copy so I could share it with all of my Cure loving friends.
It's still one of my favorite books, and it still puts me in the mood to listen to the Cure.
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This is a beautiful book, almost dreamlike at times, as Charlotte moves quietly between two very different worlds. We get deep inside her head, as she ponders and worries about identity and what it is that makes you uniquely yourself. But we also experience the world and people around her; in both 1918 as WW1 rages and she lives the life of Clare Mobely; and in her own life over forty years later, in the same place but in a very different era.
I think, of all the books I've ever read, this has one of my favourite endings. It is sad and unexpected but also deeply satisfying, as Charlotte's two lives briefly and poignantly overlap.
I think, of all the books I've ever read, this has one of my favourite endings. It is sad and unexpected but also deeply satisfying, as Charlotte's two lives briefly and poignantly overlap.
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Since I'd seen it labeled as such, I thought this book was just an ordinary boarding school story. But it soon became evident to me that I had never read the full description (or a full review) of Charlotte Sometimes... and what a surprise I got! Charlotte's confusion and shock in Chapter 2 mirrored my own; I found it was rather delicious to not know that plot twist was coming, so I could wonder along with Charlotte. I wouldn't say not knowing was integral to my enjoyment of the story, but it was rather fun. Plus, the historical setting was excellently drawn, as well as the characters. Altogether, a most satisfying and pleasing read!
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A beautiful story that is well written, Charlotte Sometimes tells the story of Charlotte Makepeace after she swaps bodies with Clare, a girl from 40 years ago. The story gives some insight into what life was like for children during the first world war. It is an easy read with well developed characters, although there is no real explanation as to why the body swapping happens. It is such a cute read that you don't really mind that however. Would recommend.
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