Reviews
Charlotte Sometimes received widespread acclaim by reviewers.
Margery Fisher, in a 1969 review for her children's literature journal Growing Point, wrote:
"Like Emma in Winter, this is really a study in disintegration, the study of a girl finding an identity by losing it... Above all, here is a dream-allegory which teaches not through statement but through feeling. We sense the meaning of Charlotte's changes of identity in the way that she senses them herself... a book of quite exceptional distinction... a haunting, convincing story which comes close to being a masterpiece of its kind... "
In Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, Peggy Heeks writes:
" shows a brilliant handling of the time-switch technique and a sincerity which rejects slick solutions to the dilemmas of the two heroines."
Children's novelist Eleanor Cameron wrote,
"Farmer writes with style. She is vivid in her depiction of place: on almost every page, scattered with colorful figures of speech, we are drawn into the school and the surroundings of the school through sights and sounds and smells and textures...above all we are moved by the depth and poignancy of the relationship between Charlotte and Emily."
She continues, "Farmer is always gifted in her grasp of possibilities that bring us up short with surprise and delight and satisfaction."
Neil Millar, in the Christian Science Monitor's review wrote that Charlotte Sometimes is, "essentially about humanity caught up in the still trickery of time."
In 1969, The Sunday Times described the book as, "This year's most haunting fantasy".
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