She was thrust back into the eighteenth century. Rosemary, until then a rather unimaginative, proper little girl, was plunged into an extraordinary adventure in spite of herself. Every time she touched the "thyme," time stopped! flies hung in mid-flight, a measuring worm paused in mid-reach. Everything but Rosemary was stopped motionless. Not only did it have a peculiar taste it had a most astonishing power over Time itself. And the word "Time" that Rosemary discovered cut into a moss-covered stone in her aunt's old herb garden in Main should have been spelled "Thyme," because of the herb growing around it-or so Rosemary thought until she picked a sprig. Rosemary was ten-year-old Rosemary Walpole. The Return of the Twelves, Pauline Clarke Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Time, Jane Louise Curry The Perilous Guard, Elizabeth Marie Pope The Sherwood Ring. It's been such a long time since I've reread it, though, that I'll have to summarize the plot using the blurb from the inside cover of the 1975 Athenium first edition: Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time Hardcover by Jane Louise Curry (Author) Visit Amazons Jane Louise Curry page Find all the books, read about the author and more. Some of you who have read this might not know about its sequel, The Magical Cupboard (see my review).
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