'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you d
id?' Charlotte Makepeace's first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of
unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the rou
tine - and each other.
No one invites her into their exclusive circles of whispe
rs and giggles. But on Charlotte's very first night something mysterious starts
to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same scho
ol.
But something has changed. Somehow Charlotte has slipped forty years back in
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