All in Good Time

by Edward Ormondroyd

Book Overview

A young girl is granted three rides in a magic elevator that transports her to the end of the nineteenth century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553209183
• ISBN13: 9780553209181
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wraps up, but doesn't equal, Time at the Top

All in Good Time is the sequel I never knew existed - to Time at the Top, which was one of my favorite books as a child. All in Good Time is written in a style similar to Time at the Top, and it clears up a few of the questions left at the end of the first book.All in Good Time might be called the "after the elevator trip" book - we pick up almost exactly where Time at the Top left off, with Susan and Mr. Shaw emerging into the 1880s. Susan, Victoria, and Robert discover that it isn't as easy as they thought it would be to make their parents fall in love, and their time is limited on both sides. At a highly inopportune moment, Cousin Jane appears, and things get worse - then Mr. Sweeney reappears, and it seems hope is gone. However, the author himself takes a hand in the tale through a rather improbably mechanism, and the day is saved.All in Good Time will be a welcome discovery to all those who were left wondering at the end of Time at the Top. The book does not stand on its own, though - definitely read the other one first.

A suitable ending for "Time At The Top."

For those who wondered what happened to Susan Shaw and her father when they went back to 1880s America to rejoin the Walker family, this book answers the questions faithfully and logically. The author casts himself into a pivotal, albeit small role in this story, where Susan and her new friends find it isn't easy to make Mr. Shaw fall in love with the widowed Mrs. Walker. Add a dour Aunt Jane to the already established villain, Mr. Sweeney, and you have a challenge that can only be remedied by a future intervention by the author. The only drawback is the fact that this book, too, leaves unanswered questions in its wake, and a third book never appeared to rescue the reader. The story reads very well, with excellent use of words by a writer whom I have long admired and recently corresponded with. Recommended along with "Time At The Top" for teenage and young adult readers.