Read: I finished it on Friday, I think. Read this one in bed mostly, a little bit at a time.
Review: Penelope, the quiet youngest sister, is different from her siblings in that she sees people from the past. Not ghosts; rather, she is prone to unexpected transfers between her own time and another. Penelope's mother suspects that, like her grandmother, she may have "second sight". The logical way to deal with this is of course for her to be packed off to Thackers, the ancestral home where the family has lived for generations. Nobody ever finds out about Penelope's forays into the past; they are tinged with sadness as she becomes close to those she visits, yet with a lingering sensation of missing her family of her own time. The book is an interesting comparison between past and present - although 'present' seems to be some time in the 1800s - in fact one of my favourite aspects of the book was the way that the descriptions of contemporary life were decidedly archaic and some of the vocabulary even obscure.
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