Series
Emma / Charlotte
Penelope Farmer · 3 novels · 1962–1969
Penelope Farmer's Aviary Hall books follow the Makepeace sisters, Emma and Charlotte, across three novels: The Summer Birds, Emma in Winter, and the best-known Charlotte Sometimes (1969), in which a boarding-school girl swaps places nightly with a counterpart living forty years earlier. The books blend everyday childhood settings with subtle fantasy and time-slip elements.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Emma / Charlotte at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1960s3
Shape
Mood
Grim and calm: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 5%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Charlotte Sometimesdarkest · most intense
- The Summer Birdsbrightest
- Emma in Wintercalmest