The House in Norham Gardens

"Another of Penelope Lively's tasteful stories of possession -- of time travel which encourages the elision of past and present as well as comparison-contrasts of different civilizations. Clare Mayfield, fourteen, lives with her great-aunts in a gothic-Victorian house ..." In the attic she discovers a shield that her great grandfather "brought back from New Guinea" ... --KirkusReviews.com, contemporary to publication of the 1st US ed. (positive)