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I am an award-winning author of 24 books for children and young adults. I write historical, fantasy and contemporary novels, as well as picture books and chapter books.
Born in Canada, I spent most of my childhood and young adult years in Argentina, returning to Canada for University. I married a young Geography student who morphed into a Foreign Service Officer, and we spent the next 34 years travelling to posts all over the world. We are now living in Ontario, Canada.
Many of my books are set in countries in which my husband and I lived, including England, Germany, the Philippines and Brazil. This has been important for the research involved in my books, both historical and fantasy. Books such as The Stone in the Meadow, The Haunting at Cliff House and The Other Elizabeth, although fantasy, required a good deal of research into the time periods about which I was writing.
Reviewed by Author Anna del C. Dye. for Readers' Favorite
This time travel story is one of the best I have seen for a while. It is an exciting and well developed tale that will keep you spellbound from the beginning to the end. It is well written, with great descriptions and likable characters.
Jenifer is visiting her uncle, for the first time, at a hundred-year-old family home in England. While exploring the countryside she finds a tall dark stone standing alone that seems to call to her. At first fearfully, and later with a growing need, she visits the stone frequently.
It doesn’t take long for her to find that the cold stone’s shadow has an unfathomable power—it transports her into the past to the same place, but way before her time. In that setting, Jenifer meets Perran, one of her ancestors, and they become best friends. He takes her all over the countryside exploring and learning. Soon she figures out that the time travel only works when there is a shadow from the sun and that when it is raining or overcast she can’t go to her new friend’s era.
One day, while together, they decide to try and see if Perran can travel with her to her time, because he has tried on his own and nothing happened. They hold hands and touch the stone as she has done many times before. This time it works . . . at least that is what they think until Perran is taken as a slave and Jenifer is carried to the priestess’ home.
This book has all the components for a great story and will be liked by readers from pre-teens up. The author did a great job, although it threw me off when Jenifer asked her uncle to explain why he had said that she was Guinevere. (“But why do you say I was named after her?”) Actually there isn’t any place in the story that supports such a claim. Except for that, it is a great story.
