SuitabookFamily change and belonging
Maisie and Felix want their parents still married and their previous life restored while adapting to Newport and their father’s absence abroad.
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Ann Hood - Author
This combines historical adventure, time travel and family mystery. Its emotional centre is two siblings trying to make sense of divorce, relocation and separation while pursuing clues across centuries.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis combines historical adventure, time travel and family mystery. Its emotional centre is two siblings trying to make sense of divorce, relocation and separation while pursuing clues across centuries.
Maisie and Felix want their parents still married and their previous life restored while adapting to Newport and their father’s absence abroad.
The twins actively seek the Treasure Chest’s time travel, investigate mysteries and follow Alexander Hamilton onto a departing ship.
The opening includes parental divorce, a parent working abroad, the disappearance of a great-uncle, stolen family artefacts, dangerous-seeming time travel and the children stowing away on a ship.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.