![]() This British classic was published in 1939, and the pacing and language reflect the publishing date. It’s a sort of ghostly time travel, although it’s clear that Penelope never becomes a “ghost” in either time that she visits. And no one in either period seems to worry too much about Penelope’s odd absences and re-appearances. She never knows exactly when or how she will slip out of her own time at Thackers, the Derbyshire farm that belongs to her great aunt and uncle, and into another time, the time of Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Spanish Armada. ![]() ![]() ![]() If ever the term “time slip” applied to a book, it’s this one: Penelope Taberner Cameron slips in and out of two time periods, the twentieth century and the late sixteenth century, like butter slipping about on a plate. ![]()
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