Charlotte Sometimes

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In 1993, Chivers Children's Audio Books released an adaptation of Charlotte Sometimes on audio cassette. [26] Influence [ edit ] I've been itching to read this book for ages. I'm so glad I finally got to it, because it was quite good! Margery Fisher, review of Charlotte Sometimes, Growing Point, November 1969, p. 1408, cited in Something About the Author 105 (1999) p. 68.

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Notes on a June 2004 re-read: I read the 1987 edition of Charlotte Sometimes, but I'd heard beforehand that the later editions (such as mine) had a different ending from the original one. I borrowed a 1969 edition from the library and did some side-by-side comparisons.

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Poland got her first stage name from the children's book, Charlotte Sometimes, written in 1969 by Penelope Farmer, about a boarding school student who finds herself transported more than 40 years into the past, into the place of another girl. [7] [8] Career [ edit ] 2006 – 2008: Career beginnings and Waves and the Both of Us [ edit ] The British children's author David Rees 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." [14]

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As many other reviewers have mentioned, I'd have never heard of this book if it were not for The Cure's beautiful song of the same name. Apparently Penelope Farmer met him for the first time not so long ago, here is her account of it... http://grannyp.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06...Overall, I think the picture of adulthood that Farmer gives the reader is not one of loss. It shows the growth and the (albeit different) creative power and understanding of oneself that gives young adulthood its distinction from childhood. Charlotte learns who it is to be Charlotte not through 'asserting Charlotte', but through 'negotiating Charlotte' with the idea of Clare. Only then can she really appreciate and know what is 'is' to be Charlotte. The narrative is quite lovely -- even poetic -- in places, and I enjoyed reading every word. However, the EPUB edition that I had (supposedly based on the 40th anniversary edition of the novel) was abysmal. There were numerous typos and odd, random punctuation (like errant periods or one half of a set of quotation marks just dangling in the middle of nowhere) and I find it difficult to believe that such mistakes were actually included in the original... and then continually overlooked for the next 40 years! (The good thing about this edition, though, was that it included the original ending. Apparently, someone in the 1980s decided that the last bit shouldn't be included.)