Charlotte Sometimes (novel) - Plot Introduction

Plot Introduction

The story is centred around a girl called Charlotte, who, not long after starting at a boarding school, finds that she has mysteriously travelled back about fifty five years. The teachers and other students call her "Clare Croft", the girl in whose shoes Charlotte finds herself. Charlotte and Clare mysteriously exchange places each night, each one alternating between the years 1918 and Charlotte's time. Although Charlotte and Clare never meet each other, they communicate with one another by writing notes in an old diary that lookes like an exercise book. The girls are faced with the disconcerting scenario of finding out how to live each other's lives without being discovered.

The story is entirely written from Charlotte's point of view: Clare herself never appears in the narrative. As the story progresses, Charlotte becomes trapped in Clare's time. Charlotte struggles to maintain her own identity as Charlotte, whilst living Clare's life in Clare Croft's time.