In the Keep of Time by Margaret J. Anderson

Her fiction and her nonfiction, characters discover who they are and 'Identity is the prevalent theme in Margaret J. She won't be around to 'test' her theory!)

Was smart of Anderson to place it in the century that she did - when So, about a well-known current scientific issue. There's also some surprising stuff, in the last third of the book or Left with an expanded sense of time, as well as a dramatic realizationĪlso, see my past thread 'Time travelers from distant past who adjustĪs I mentioned, ItKoT is probably unique in its depiction of theĬulture shock a five-year-old would go through upon traveling from the Her first novel, TO NOWHERE AND BACK, Margaret Anderson has written anĮxtra-ordinary story about the adventures of four children who find With the same thoughtfulness and imagination that won high praise for In turning the key in the tower door, could They knew that what they were experiencing was real, that it wasn't aĭream, and with the certainty of this awesome question settled Time, and to the people who inhabited it. Longer recognized her own brothers and sister and seemed to belong to Puzzling was the change in Ollie, the youngest of the four, who no Theįour children pushed inside and then stood for a minute while theirįrom the moment they stepped over the threshold, noting in the ElliotĬhildren's own past lives could have possibly prepared them for the The key turned easily and the heavy door swung open. The path was steep and narrow, and the children were out of breath A well-worn path wouldĪround a small pond and up the rocky hillside. Smailholm Tower stood above them on a rise. I'd even suggest her work - in that book at least - is better than Scottish legend! There's a little bit about that Later, to find that the story of Muckle-mooth Meg's marriage is an old Minimalist writing style, I think, but the characters and what theyĮxperience are very impressive too. 'In the Keep of Time' is quite memorable, in part because of its near. More than half her books are nature books or biographies, such as her

She grew up in Lockerbie, Scotland, became a biologist, moved toĬanada in the 1950s and to the U.S.

In the Keep of Time by Margaret J. Anderson