Review from ARC from publisher.
The Plot: Little Pembleton, 1913. Addy Morrow is fifteen and she wants something more out of life than being the town bastard, bullied by mean girls who think they are better than her because they have more money, a higher social class, and married parents.
Instead, what she gets is being taken out of school and put into service for a strange old man, Mr. Greenwood, who hasn’t been right since his wife died and his son disappeared. Mum tells her she is lucky! It could be worse, she could be a lowly scullery maid in a big house.
Addy enters a locked room in Mr. Greenwood’s house, sees a strange contraption, enters and finds herself in the year 1240. In her present, she’s nothing, a servant. In the past, she can reinvent herself into a lady.
I loved this book!!! The elements of time travel; romance; description of two different historical periods and the characters (especially Addy and Will) were very believable and well written. Awesome historical fiction!
When Addy steps back into 1240 wearing the queen's costume that she has taken from the local amateur theatre society, it looks as though all of her dreams to "be a lady" have come true. She is mistaken for Lady Matilda who is engaged to be married Sir Hugh,the local landowner. Unfortunately for Addy, reality quickly sets in.
Addy (aka Lady Matilda) meets the handsome young falconer's son, Will, and starts to fall in love with him. Just as she realizes that Will feels the same way about her, Addy finds out that more is riding on Lady Matilda's marriage to Sir Hugh than she first thought.
Where Addy's low station in life is a constant problem for a strong-willed girl in 1913, now the high station of Lady Matilda in 1240 creates a very difficult choice for Addy to make.
I am not going to give anything away from the creative choices that are made at the end of this book. Enjoy the story!
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