The story is well written and describes the environment of Lyme Regis, a town I love, very well, particularly the fossils in the rocks, which prompt Maria to see the past as being preserved in the present and, in a sense, still continuing alongside contemporary events. She gets to hear more about Harriet, a girl of her own age, who lived in the house in the nineteenth century, and gets increasingly confused between the events of the two ages, though it isn't entirely clear whether this is a timeslip or a vivid imagination. Maria Foster is an 11 year old girl on holiday with her parents in Lyme Regis, staying in old Victorian house, where she hears a swing creaking and a dog barking that no one else can hear. This is a classic children's mystery story written and set in the 1970s. I'm trying to read books with lighter themes during the current emergency.
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