![]() ![]() And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s. It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. Publication date: Originally published in 1969 Today, it’s Ana’s turn to take over with a review of Charlotte Sometimes! On Old School Wednesdays, we take a break from the new and pay homage to the old by reviewing books that are at least 5 years old. ![]() Inspired by our defunct From the Dungeons feature (owing a dash of inspiration from Angieville’s Retro Fridays), we decided to create a new feature for 2013. And what better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? Welcome, everyone, to a brand new weekly Smugglerific feature: Old School Wednesdays! We came up with the idea towards the end of last year, when both of us were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of new and shiny (and often over-hyped) books. ![]()
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