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Charlotte Sometimes (novel)
''Charlotte Sometimes'' is a children's novel by British writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969 by Chatto & Windus in the UK, and by Harcourt in the USA. It is the third and best known of three books featuring the Makepeace sisters, Charlotte and Emma,〔Anita Silvey, ed: ''Children's books and their creators'' (New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1995), p. 238.〕 and inspired the song "Charlotte Sometimes"〔''Charlotte Sometimes'' author Penelope Farmer in 2007 about "Charlotte Sometimes", part (one ) and (two ) (via Archive.org)〕 by English rock band The Cure. These three books are sometimes known as the ''Aviary Hall'' books.()
==Plot introduction==
The story is centred on a girl called Charlotte, who, not long after starting at a boarding school, finds that she has mysteriously travelled back more than forty years. The teachers and other students call her "Clare", the girl in whose shoes Charlotte finds herself. Charlotte and Clare mysteriously exchange places each night, each one alternating between the years 1918 and Charlotte's time.〔Charlotte travels back in time to the year 1918 (p. 77). In Charlotte's time, the year is 1963, as the book states that Clare's time is more than forty years before Charlotte's, and that 14 September was a Saturday in both years. The events in the book take place approximately a year after those in ''The Summer Birds'', set in southern England in the early 1960s. Another World War I time slip novel of the same period is the more matter-of-fact ''Jessamy'' (1967) by Barbara Sleigh.〕 Although Charlotte and Clare never meet each other, they communicate with one another by writing notes in an old diary that looks like an exercise book. The girls are faced with the disconcerting scenario of finding out how to live each other's lives without being discovered.
The story is entirely written from Charlotte's point of view: Clare herself never appears in the narrative. As the story progresses, Charlotte becomes trapped in Clare's time. Charlotte struggles to maintain her own identity as Charlotte, whilst living Clare's life in Clare's time.
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