A Traveller in Time

While visiting Thackers Manor in 1934, dreamy Penelope becomes involved in a 16th century plot to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots. A beloved time travel story that has endured for generations. * 'Aunt Tissie, I opened the door and saw some ladies sitting in a room. Who were they?' I whisperd. She started. 'You saw them? You've seen them?' She looked at me with astonishment. Penelope lives in the twentieth century, and it is only when she goes to live with her aunt at Thackers, a remote ancient farmhouse, that she finds herself travelling back in time to join the lives of the Babington family, and watching helplessly as tragic events bring danger to her friends and the downfall of their heroine, Mary, Queen of Scots, whom they are seeking to rescue. * Among more than 100 novels and collections, her most famous and successful novel for older children, A Traveller in Time (1939), is a fantasy based again on her rural childhood, concerning a local plot to murder Mary Queen of Scots in 1569 and a girl from the 20th century who uncontrollably timeslips back 400 years to witness the tragedy. --Encyclopedia of Fantasy, biographical entry by Jo Fletcher *** Cover illustration by Garry Walton Illustrated by Faith Jaques