A review by samanthawattam
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley

3.0

Penelope is sent with her brother and sister to stay at Thackers Farm, nr Hollow in the countryside with her Aunt Tissie and Uncle Barnabas. As Penelope has ill health when her siblings return to the city she remains behind. A sensitive child she becomes aware of the existence of a parallel world to her own into the past which she glimpses through doorways. Soon glimpses turn into a blurring of the lines and Penelope finds she can travel between timelines into the life at Thackers Farm in 1582 and a plot to rescue Mary Queen of Scots.

The writing is beautifully descriptive of rural life of the gentry in the 16th century and the precarious political times. I did struggle to connect with the story also my sympathies don’t lie with those who were plotting to restore Mary Queen of Scots to the throne.