I think I was a little bit unfair to this book as I was reading it because I could not stop comparing it to the brilliant novel that is Tom's Midnight Garden. When Susan strategizes to help them scare the suitor away, her own fate becomes magically wrapped up with theirs in a way that will eventually alter history.

There she meets Victoria and Robert, a pair of siblings who are concerned about a smooth-talking gold digger who is after their widowed mother's money - and her hand in marriage. In reality, though, Susan has ridden the elevator to the top floor and slipped through a time warp that has transported her back to 1881. Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, books, birds, flowers (wild and tame), and listening to classical music.When Susan Shaw disappears suddenly one afternoon, her father and others in her apartment building fear that she has been kidnapped. They have two grandsons and a granddaughter.

Their seven children are all grown and independent. They live in the country near Ithaca, in a house designed and partly built by Edward. He and his wife Joan moved to upstate New York in 1970. He lived in Berkeley for 25 years, working at various jobs while he wrote children's books. Later he went back for a master's degree in library science. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.Īfter the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, bo Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd