In the Nick of Time [Paperback]

A brilliantly atmospheric and chilling thriller from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.

Charlotte is out in the woods on her own one day when something mysterious happens - she walks along a row of stones laid like stepping stones on the forest floor . . . and finds herself in another age. She has somehow slipped back to 1955, and is now, in the same woods, on the site of a very unique school, an open-air school for sick city children. No one believes her tales of the world she's come from, her mobile doesn't work and she can't see how on earth she's going to get back. A friendship with another pupil proves the key - is Jack more than he seems?

A brilliantly atmospheric and chilling thriller from the master storyteller and multi-award-winner, Robert Swindells.

'What year is this?'

When Charlie falls off a stepping stone in the woods, her whole world suddenly changes.

She stumbles in the 21st century, and picks herself up in the middle of the 20th.There are no trainers, no mobile phones - and she's a pupil at a weird outdoor school where the classrooms don't even have walls.

Somehow, Charlie has slipped through a nick of time.Can new friend Jack help her find a way back - or will she be trapped in the past?

Inspired by a fascinating piece of British history, this is a gripping page-turner from multi-award-winning author, Robert Swindells.

Cover: Tracey & Jerry Paris

ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three years, then trained and worked as a teacher. Now a full-time writer, he is the author of a number of bestselling titles for the Random House children's list. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for STONE COLD (Hamish Hamilton), a teenage novel about a serial killer.

RUBY TANYA won the Salford Children's Book Award 2005.

'Plots which grip the reader from the opening paragraph' THE SUNDAY TIMES

'Robert Swindells writes the kinds of books that are so scary you're afraid to turn the page' YOUNG TELEGRAPH