A Traveller in Time by Uttley, Alison

A Traveller in Time

The "superb" time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task,...
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SKU: 9781681374482
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Author: Alison Uttley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Traveller in Time by Uttley, Alison

A Traveller in Time

€18,26

A Traveller in Time

€18,26
Author: Alison Uttley
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The "superb" time travel adventure of one lonely young girl, a remarkable family, and an impossible task, set between modern and Elizabethan England (The Washington Post)

"A beautiful book . . . a form of enchanting ghost story, with the ghosts drawn in with the grace of a painter on a fan." --The Observer

Penelope Taberner Cameron is a solitary and a sickly child, a reader and a dreamer. Her mother, indeed, is of the opinion that the girl has grown all too attached to the products of her imagination and decides to send her away from London for a restorative dose of fresh country air. But staying at Thackers, in remote Derbyshire, Penelope is soon caught up in a new mystery, as she finds herself transported at unforeseeable intervals back and forth from modern to Elizabethan times. There she becomes part of a remarkable family that is, Penelope realizes, in terrible danger as they plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from the prison in which Queen Elizabeth has confined her.

Penelope knows the tragic end that awaits the Scottish queen, but she can neither change the course of events nor persuade her new family of the hopelessness of their cause, which love, loyalty, and justice all compel them to embrace. Caught between present and past, Penelope is ever more torn by questions of freedom and fate. To travel in time, she discovers, is to be very much alone. And yet the slow recurrent rhythms of the natural world, beautifully captured by Alison Uttley, also speak of a greater ongoing life that transcends the passage of the years.

Author: Alison Uttley, Phyllis Bray
Publisher: Nyrb Kids
Published: 02/11/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781681374482
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Alison Uttley (1884-1976) developed a love of science at school and won a scholarship for physics at Manchester University. Her husband died in 1930, and in order to support herself and her son, she began to write a series of imaginary stories about animals such as Little Grey Rabbit, Little Red Fox, Sam Pig, and Hare. Before her death she wrote more than one hundred books.

Phyllis Bray (1911-1991) was an English painter, illustrator, and muralist.


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