Time Breaking Love and Time - The Best of Friends, the Bitterest of Enemies
Barbara Spencer
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Fifteen-year-old Molly is gauche and awkwardly tall, a great disappointment to her parents who only have time for their careers. Constantly at loggerheads because Molly is determined to become a swimmer, the family go to stay in a 17th century manor house now used as a religious retreat. Inadvertently, Molly triggers a time-chute and reappears in 1648, at the end of the Civil War, to find she has taken the place of Molly Hampton, the eldest daughter in a Puritan family. After suffering a beating, an entire morning spent in chapel, a smelly privy, a muddy farmyard, and cold water to wash in, Molly labels the seventeenth century barbaric and is hell-bent on escaping back to her own life. But the manor house belongs to Sir Richard Blaisdale, a Royalist family, and is barred to her. Forced to continue with the charade, Molly meets Richard, supposedly her best friend, only to find herself falling in love with him. Gradually, Molly begins to change her mind believing that she can stay and take Molly Hampton's place, little realising that danger and disaster lie in wait for her...Time Breaking, the latest riveting offer from author Barbara Spencer, is written for young adults aged 12 -16.About the Author
In 1967, considering herself to be destined for a life of mediocrity, Barbara Spencer hi-tailed it to the West Indies to watch cricket, the precursor to a highly colourful career spanning three continents, in which she was caught up in riots, wars and choosing Miss World.
She eventually settled in Somerset, to bring up a family, tap-dance and teach at the local swimming club. Now a hands-on grandmother, her current desire is to disappear in a puff of smoke and find peace and quiet to pursue her writing. Most recently, the launch of her children’s book Scruffy has taken Barbara into primary schools, talking and working with children on story writing.
When asked
Which three authors’ work would you compare your writing to? - she said:
'Nobody I can think of. I write for little kids, children, teenagers and young adults. Besides that, I write the stories I want to write. For so many authors, their first book dictates the style which they repeat on and on and on ... I couldn’t do that. I would lose interest after two. For me, a story creeps its way into my head; fully-fledged it tells me how it wants to be written: third person - first person – comical – mysterious – or exciting. I don’t seem to have a lot of say in it and woe betide if I try to change it – the words stick like blocks of wood at the end of my pen'
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Format
Paperback
224 pages pages
Author
Barbara Spencer
Publisher
Matador an imprint of Troubador Publishing
Publication date
20th October 2011
Author's Website
ISBN
9781848767331
