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Charlotte Sometimes (novel)

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last chapter of the story were removed. These include a poignant episode where Charlotte, back in her own time, receives a package and a letter from Clare's sister, Emily, as an adult. Also removed is the original ending, in which the end of term comes and the boarders ride away in the school bus, Charlotte among them, heading home to Aviary Hall. The 1985 edition ends with Charlotte and Elizabeth finding Clare's exercise book, hidden in the leg of the bed for over forty years.
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and Charlotte have grown in their own ways and aren't exactly based on my mother and her sister now, but this is where it started." Penelope Farmer's mother, Penelope Boothby, who was "talkative and unconventional", besides being the inspiration for Emma, also inspired the character of Emily. The boarding school in the novel is set near where Penelope Farmer lived in London, but based on the
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addresses her as "Clare". She tries to spend the day in 1918 without being noticed. Each night, Charlotte finds herself swapping between her own time and Clare's time. They must learn to live two different lives. Charlotte and Clare manage to write to each other in Clare's diary, which they share and hide in their bed.
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The story was about Jay himself. How he went to sleep at home one day and woke up in the same house but a hundred years earlier. And how everybody in the house looked at him as if he came from outer space and said what are you doing here? Where did you come from? And they drove him out as if he was a
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One day, Charlotte learns what has become of Emily and Clare through a conversation with Sarah. Sarah's mother is Emily, and Clare died in the flu epidemic after the war. Later, Charlotte and Elizabeth discuss the events Charlotte has experienced. They find the exercise book in one of the legs of the
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Two versions of the novel exist. A revised edition published by Dell in 1985 has a number of changes made by the author. Almost all the revisions were minor, such as modernisation of vocabulary and punctuation, and minor re-wording of some sentences. The only large change is that a few events in the
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I realized that I was writing a book about identity. I am a twin, a non-identical one, and apparently one of the chief problems of non-identical twins is always the establishment of a genuine and separate sense of identity. Looking back I can see this has in fact been an obsession with me, since the
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ahead of time based on family experiences. She later wrote that Charlotte and Emma were originally based on her mother and her mother's sister as children, having no parents and "having to be everything to each other", one being the responsible one, the other being rather difficult. She wrote, "Emma
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who finds one morning she has traveled mysteriously back more than 40 years and is known as Clare. Charlotte and Clare change places each night, alternating between 1918 and Charlotte's time; although Charlotte and Clare never meet, they communicate through diary notes in an exercise book. The story
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Charlotte and Emily form a plan to enter the school by night in an attempt to get Charlotte into the bed which will take Charlotte back to her own time. Inside her room, which is now being used as the school sickroom, Charlotte finds the bed is occupied, and thus she cannot return home. She escapes
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Charlotte, expecting to have returned to her own time for the last time, is shocked to find that she has not, and is still in 1918. She will go into lodgings with the Chisel Brown family: it appears she will be trapped in the past. In the house, Miss Agnes Chisel Brown shows Charlotte and Emily the
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in Sevenoaks, Kent, which she and her twin sister Judith attended in the 1950s. Elements in the book based on the school include the pillared front door, the glass verandah and the cedar tree, which still stands, as of 2020. Some characters were based on real students of the time. The episode when
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While the novel does not state Charlotte's year, it indicates that 14 September was a Saturday in both Charlotte's and Clare's years; that Charlotte travelled back "over forty years"; and that, had Charlotte become trapped in the past and grown up in Clare's place, she would be "a woman of nearly
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On arriving back, Charlotte is startled to learn that her roommate Elizabeth had deduced the truth about her swap with Clare. Charlotte wonders about Sarah's mother and what has become of Emily and Clare. At the school, Charlotte sees the elderly Miss Wilkin. Charlotte realises that she had known
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wrote, "Farmer writes with style. She is vivid in her depiction of place: on almost every page, scattered with colourful figures of speech, we are drawn into the school and the surroundings of the school through sights and sounds and smells and textures... above all we are moved by the depth and
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in an attempt to speak to Arthur. The girls hide behind the curtains to observe. During the seance, they hear Clare's voice crying out for Emily. Emily cries out, and the two girls are discovered and disciplined. Later, Miss Agnes asks about the voice they heard at the seance – Clare's. She then
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named Sarah. Sarah's mother also attended the school. She is to share a room with other girls, Susannah, Elizabeth, Janet, and Vanessa. The next morning she finds herself in the same place, but in the year 1918 – with war still going on. A younger girl called Emily calls Charlotte her sister and
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Charlotte receives a package from Emily as an adult. It contains a letter from Emily, and the toys which Miss Agnes had given them over forty years ago. Charlotte places the marbles from the solitaire set in a jar and fills it with water, which the other girls admire. Charlotte feels a sense of
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also points out that identity as a major theme. He wrote, "Its most memorable passages are poignant or resigned or concerned with absence, loss, or death.... Its theme is not so much maturing relationships, but identity.... Charlotte begins to wonder, with increasing dismay, if she really is
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Charlotte is not the only one who struggles with identity. Emily tells of the wretchedness of being motherless and unwanted, moving between homes while her father fights in the war. Meanwhile, Charlotte dreams she is fighting to stay as Charlotte. She dreams about Arthur.
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personal identity in now having her own decoration to her dresser, yet muses that the marbles belonged to her when she was living the life of another person, namely Clare. The end of term comes, and the boarders leave the school in the school bus, singing rhymes.
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A letter arrives for Clare and Emily from their father. Emily does not let Charlotte read it, to the bewilderment of the other girls. Charlotte, thoughtful as always, wonders who Sarah's mother is: perhaps it will be Charlotte herself if she is trapped in 1918?
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wrote in 1980 of how "the book is none the worse for breaking the conventional bounds of the children's novel. It is probably Penelope Farmer's finest novel – complex, taut, not a word wrong – and it thoroughly deserves the popularity it has attained."
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Charlotte: perhaps she has turned into Clare, rather than just substituted for her. This may be an adult fear – the fear of not being everything you and other people have always said you are, the realization that you may be someone totally different."
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comes. The war is over: people dance and celebrate in the street, and Charlotte and Emily join in, even though it would anger Mr Chisel Brown. In disgrace, Charlotte and Emily are sent back to the school. Miss Agnes gives them the toys as a gift.
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Emily and Clare are supposed to leave their room soon and go into lodgings with the Chisel Brown family. They have to make sure this happens when Clare is in 1918, because they won't be able to switch again after that.
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was written – being the only year fitting these descriptions. Although some reviewers have given 1958 as Charlotte's year, being exactly forty years after 1918, the year 1958 is not given in the book.
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poignancy of the relationship between Charlotte and Emily." She continues, "Farmer is always gifted in her grasp of possibilities that bring us up short with surprise and delight and satisfaction."
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At night, Charlotte dreams about Arthur again, as a drummer boy, and that she has turned into Agnes. Her crisis of identity comes to a head as she struggles to preserve her identity as Charlotte.
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aired an abridged reading of the novel, read by Deborah Findlay, in July–August 1994. The seven-part abridged version was created by Hilary Brand, with the Sally Avens as the producer.
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after Charlotte has left her small village school, and covers the period of her first term at boarding school. Although Charlotte's year is not explicitly stated in
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is written from Charlotte's point of view: the narrative never follows Clare. Charlotte becomes trapped in Clare's time, struggling to maintain her identity.
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wrote, " is a fascinating exploration of the fragile barriers between layers of time, handled with great skill in the writing and delicacy of perception.
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is a book of quite exceptional distinction.... The book is essentially about humanity caught up in the still trickery of time.... Not easily forgotten."
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the students are able to play wild games in the dormitories, and eventually Charlotte is able to sleep in the bed that will return her to her own time.
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Charlotte walks onto the glass verandah is based on a real event, when Penelope Farmer climbed on the glass verandah and broke it.
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ends, and indicates that Charlotte will stay a week with one of the friends she made at boarding school.
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bed, where it has been for forty years. It includes the last letter Charlotte wrote to Clare.
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At the age of 21, Penelope Farmer was contracted for her first collection of short stories,
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Q: Did you pick your name for the Cure song? A: from the book which the cure song is about
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board with marbles. She tells the two girls about her brother Arthur, who died in the
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Geoff Fox; Graham Hammond; Terry Jones; Frederic Smith; Kenneth Sterck, eds. (1976).
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Ruth recalls her "dream" of seeing Clare whilst in the sickroom. Because of the
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Margaret K. McElderry, "Penelope Farmer: The Development of an Author". In
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Margaret K. McElderry, "Penelope Farmer: The Development of an Author". In
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then follows Emma's story while Charlotte returns to boarding school.
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Charlotte's sister Emma and their grandfather Elijah do not appear in
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Charlotte arrives at a new boarding school, and is shown around by a
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sixty when Emma was still only twelve," with 1963 – the year after
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In 1993, Chivers Children's Audio Books released an adaptation of
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being seen by Nurse Gregory but is seen by another student, Ruth.
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Kidlit - Clare Moby, in Aviary Hall books, by Penelope Farmer
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David Rees, "The Marble in the Water: Penelope Farmer". In
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described the book as "this year's most haunting fantasy".
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The first novel featuring Charlotte and Emma Makepeace was
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mad dog, got into the house – his own house – by accident.
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Penelope Farmer's personal blog entry, 21 November 2007.
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toys she once played with, including toy soldiers and a
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The original 1969 text of the book was re-published by
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tells Charlotte and Emily of Arthur's war experiences.
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In 2007, Penelope Farmer herself wrote another novel,
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This article is about the novel. For other uses, see
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Index

Charlotte Sometimes

Penelope Farmer
Children's novel
Chatto & Windus
Emma in Winter
Penelope Farmer
boarding school
The Summer Birds
Emma in Winter
Harcourt
Chatto & Windus
West Heath Girls' School
prefect
solitaire
war
seance
Armistice
flu epidemic
South Downs
Margery Fisher
David Rees
Margery Fisher
Eleanor Cameron
The Christian Science Monitor
The Sunday Times
Margaret K. McElderry
David Rees
The Millions
The New York Review Children's Collection

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