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.
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