Elizabeth, Elizabeth

Spending the summer with her increasingly remote aunt Kay in a two-hundred-year-old Scottish manor house, apprehensive Elizabeth Martin finds herself crossing into the eighteenth century and living the days of another Elizabeth.

Robinsheugh stands in the Scottish Border Country, a region where the line between the past and the present seems curiously indefinite. Elizabeth Martin is sent there to spend a summer with an aunt who seems more concerned with Robinsheugh's eighteenth-century owners than with her own niece, though a few years back the two of them had enjoyed a warm friendship. To Elizabeth, desperately lonely, unsure of herself and of others, the old house itself offers a strange alternative to misery — but one for which a harsh price has to be paid.

Also published as: Robinsheugh