SuitabookLily Tripp: Diary of an Accidental Time Traveller
Amelia Tait
- Reading
- Pause after a historical episode to distinguish documented customs from fictional invention; afterwards, discuss how Lily responds to social pressure, uncertainty and changing expectations without revealing whether her journey is resolved.
- Themes
- Friendship and social belonging: Lily navigates her friendship with Poppy, conflict with Georgia and Joseph, and familiar social problems across historical periods. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Historical life and change: Lily travels through periods including Victorian times, Roman Britain, the 1920s, 1621 and 1972; the book identifies some details as historically based. Historical settings, social life, food and fashion are used to explain how everyday expectations differ between eras.
- First-crush feelings: Lily is in love with Ollie and hopes to confess, while he remains unaware of her feelings. Romantic feeling forms part of Lily’s everyday emotional life alongside the adventure, but its eventual development is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Some situations may merit a little preparation: Lily faces awkward body-related questions, unreturned romantic feelings, social hostility and the greater risk attached to being accused of witchcraft in Jacobean times.