Penelope Farmer

Charlotte Sometimes (The New York Review Children's Collection)

When she awakens on her second day at boarding school, a young girl finds she has gone back in time to 1918.

Charlotte sometimes

A strange boy appears in the village one summer day and teaches all the children how to fly. When autumn comes, he tells them his special mission, and they are faced with a difficult choice.

The Summer Birds

Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope

Since being abandoned by her widowered father, Flora lives with her cousin and struggles with memories of a previous life in which she was the child Penelope.

A Novel

Two English girls from differing backgrounds are joined in friendship when they discover a stone that seems to have magical powers.

The Magic Stone

Penelope's mother died when she was a very young child and she was subsequently adopted by her mum's best friend, Aunt Jo. On the surface her life seems as normal as anyone's and yet underneath she is deeply confused. Why does she suffer such painful headaches, why does she remember things that can't possibly have happened to her, and why can she speak phrases of Latin when she has never been taught the subject?!. Sometimes she really believes she is going mad. And then when even her best friend, Piloo, starts talking about reincarnation it's almost more than she can bear. Penelope only wants to be herself, but in order to achieve that she has to look to her past and discover just who she really is. . . . .

Jane Ophelia - Jo - retired publisher, lies on her deathbed. In between the attentions of her favourite nurse and visits from her not always grateful children, her fourth husband and her only female friend, she relives the story of her past from childhood to old age; from life with her adopted father to facing death in a terminal ward. As her story unfolds, the immeasurable and alienating impact of two World Wars on one woman's life is unveiled, and with it a shocking revelation about her parentage...Melancholic, haunting and optimistic, Goodnight Ophelia is Penelope Famer's rich evocation of the vicissitudes of a 20th Century life and of one woman's journey to make peace with the global and personal conflicts of her past.

Goodnight Ophelia

When Hugh is given a new cupboard, little does he know the secret it holds or how it will affect him and all his friends. Because the cupboard changes things - sometimes dangerously - and if it has the power to change a wallet into a pig, imagine what it can turn Hugh's friend Penn into! . . . And then there are Hugh's dreams; or are they really dreams?

A Castle Of Bone

Hugh and his father find a rather ugly old cupboard in a junk shop and Hugh persuades his father to buy it - for putting clothes in. That, it turns out, is the last thing he is able to do with it because it changes the contents - sometimes dangerously.

A Castle of Bone

Emma, spending a lonely winter with her grandfather and his housekeeper, develops a friendship with another solitary child, Bobby.

Emma in Winter

Mõnikord Charlotte

A modern Eve tells her own story about life in the Garden of Eden as the loving but obstinate Adam, the knowing Lilith, the manlike serpent, the disdaineful Archangels, and the ambivalent Jehovah each try to exploit her innocence

Eve, Her Story

Chris Connor

A young English girl relates the changes in her life caused by the first World War, especially the death of her brother.

August the Fourth

A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

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