![]() ![]() ![]() This she forgoes for the dunny with newspapers hanging on a string for toilet paper. She must dispose of dead rats, and use a chamber pot in the night. It is almost impossible for Cat to behave like she belongs in Fan’s era. Hilarious situations occur when both girls try to cover their mistakes in speech, attitude, dress and relationships within the family circle. Meanwhile, wonderful descriptions of life and family in the early 1900s, become film tapes, projecting the past that Cat is forced to adapt to. ![]() How it happens is a mystery to both girls who must work out how to get back home. Fan is in Cat’s body and looks like her but is still Fan, and vice-versa. The girls find themselves in the other’s world. On an ordinary day, when both girls are swimming, the hands of the stopwatch measuring time for Cat, turn anti-clockwise at the same moment that Fan is being timed.Ī time-slip occurs. She and her nine siblings work extremely hard with training fitting in around the endless chores that every day demands. ![]() Her life is ruled by early morning training and a stop watch.įan longs to be a top swimmer. The expectations that come with the scholarship are overwhelming for Cat, and she’d rather be back in Orange. Swimming is not her passion but she is good at it. Cat has won a sports scholarship into Victoria College. Cat and her family have moved from country Victoria to the city. This clever and highly entertaining novel is written by two authors, writing one voice each. ![]()
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