· It's consistently described as a Timeslip--but the time travel element is miniscule, which disappointed me. It is The House in Norham Gardens, by Penelope Lively (, for older middle grade readers and up). In wintry Oxford, back in the s, a fourteen year old girl begins to . This is the first book I've read from Penelope Lively. It's a novel set in Oxford in the late s about a young teenage girl, Clare, living with her great-aunts in an antiquated Victorian house. The house is still packed full of things from the s, including a tribal mask from Papua New Guinea that Clare's great-grandfather (the great-aunts' father) brought back from an expedition to the country/5(31). The House in Norham Gardens. Penelope Lively. Mammoth, - New Guinea - pages. 3 Reviews. The carved shield she finds in the attic, brought from New Guines years ago, causes /5(3).
Another of Penelope Lively's tasteful stories of possession — of time travel which encourages the elision of past and present as well as comparison-contrasts of different civilizations. Clare Mayfield, fourteen, lives with her great-aunts in a gothic-Victorian house, itself a ""flight of fancy,"" in the Midlands. The aunts ""think backwards because that suits them best""; Clare must face the. The House in Norham Gardens. Penelope Lively. Mammoth, - New Guinea - pages. 3 Reviews. The carved shield she finds in the attic, brought from New Guines years ago, causes fourteen-year-old Clare disturbing dreams. The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively was first published in The setting is Oxford, a large rambling house at number 40 Norham Gardens, where 14 year old Clare Mayfield lives with her two elderly aunts. The 19 rooms in the house are stuffed with artefacts, nothing has ever been thrown away and the attic even has trunks full of.
The House in Norham Gardens. Penelope Lively. Mammoth, - New Guinea - pages. 3 Reviews. The carved shield she finds in the attic, brought from New Guines years ago, causes. Penelope Lively's story concerns what was then the vast noble decay of Victorian North Oxford, a mossy, creaking estate of enormous dark red brick houses, steep-roofed, pointy-windowed, cornery, sitting in large untended gardens, in those days cut up into melancholy bedsits and generally thought to be doomed, now lovingly preserved, converted into language schools or college halls of residence, and sometimes even revived as family homes by the new rich who have discovered Oxford in the last. In which Rosianna gets excited by a book for kids/teens. AS www.doorway.ru House in Norham Gardens by Penelope LivelyQuotation from The Fault in Our Stars by John.
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