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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
I read this I think after it was first on the telly. A quick Google suggests that would be (gulp) 1978. This is essentially the perfect book for me - time travel or magic - hard to tell them apart in a book like this maybe - ghosts - and history, particularly Tudor history.
Penelope slips through time at an old house in Derbyshire. She finds herself involved with the lives of the people who live there in the late 16th century, and they're involved in a plot, a real plot, the Babington Plot, to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots, from her house arrest nearby, at Hardwick, possibly. Of course even when I was six I knew this wouldn't end well, because we all know what happens to Mary. And anyone trying to help her was a traitor, of course.
From this I learned that marchpane is marzipan. And was introduced to the idea that a patchwork quilt could contain fabric from a three hundred year old dress. And that becoming fond of people who've been dead for centuries is not helpful.
(It was partly filmed at Simon Groom's family farm in Dethick - when we drove through Dethick in 2010 I was THRILLED. SG was a Blue Peter presenter, I think the BBC must have met him at the farm during filming.)
Penelope slips through time at an old house in Derbyshire. She finds herself involved with the lives of the people who live there in the late 16th century, and they're involved in a plot, a real plot, the Babington Plot, to rescue Mary, Queen of Scots, from her house arrest nearby, at Hardwick, possibly. Of course even when I was six I knew this wouldn't end well, because we all know what happens to Mary. And anyone trying to help her was a traitor, of course.
From this I learned that marchpane is marzipan. And was introduced to the idea that a patchwork quilt could contain fabric from a three hundred year old dress. And that becoming fond of people who've been dead for centuries is not helpful.
(It was partly filmed at Simon Groom's family farm in Dethick - when we drove through Dethick in 2010 I was THRILLED. SG was a Blue Peter presenter, I think the BBC must have met him at the farm during filming.)