0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Historical fiction

Not currently available

A Traveller in Time (Hardcover) Loot Price: R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
You Save: R106 (23%)
A Traveller in Time (Hardcover): Alison Uttley

A Traveller in Time (Hardcover)

Alison Uttley

 (sign in to rate)
List price R465 Loot Price R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 You Save R106 (23%)

Bookmark and Share

Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.

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 Scot, 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, Penelope discovers, is to 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 years.

General

Imprint: New York Review of Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2011
First published: May 2011
Authors: Alison Uttley
Dimensions: 224 x 144 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Unsewn / adhesive bound / Paper over boards
Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-388-6
Categories: Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Historical fiction
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > Historical Fiction
Books > Children's Fiction & Fun > General
LSN: 1-59017-388-0
Barcode: 9781590173886

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

Partners