A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human
identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.
It's natural to feel a little out of place when you're the new kid, 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. In the months that follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in
her own time and in Clare's. 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. Her teachers think she's slow, the other girls find her odd, and,
as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if
she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesn't figure out some
way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she
might never have another chance.