Lesley Jepps

Umbrella In Time Lesley Jepps

Umbrella in Time is a children's novel for age 7yrs and over about a girl called Rachel who finds a Victorian umbrella in her father's office. It takes her back in time to the Second World War, and then to Victorian Liverpool where she meets previous owners of the umbrella who are linked to her family in the present. In a series of adventures she travels through time, to find a missing ruby necklace which will help her father, whose firm is going bankrupt. A future owner of the umbrella finally appears, to solve the mystery. Will the umbrella give up its secret?