Lost In Time

Post written by Dawn Treacher

More and more in my job I’m using books to aid me in explaining situations to children and this is going to be another that I  will be using.



For Connie’s Gran time is shrinking due to dementia, and it’s as if Gramps has a secret he will never tell; but Connie finds living with them pretty ordinary. That is until time itself begins to vanish in front of her eyes!


Thank goodness for her friend Nevis, a quirky clock shop owner and his one-eyed ginger cat called Captain. With their help, Connie discovers an alarming link between an infestation of white mice and time’s disappearance. Connie’s curiosity thrusts her into a perilous adventure that could unravel the secrets of her past in a world far different from her own. Together with new friends she makes along the way, Connie must brave many dangers in search of a way home before her own time runs out.


For Connie’s gran, time was shrinking. What a powerful first sentence and it sets us up on an emotional adventure.

To us adults reading this Connie’s gran definitely has dementia’ we can recognise all the signs but to a child they won’t know this , they might just see someone becoming forgetful, getting older and getting confused. But the word dementia is not actually ever mentioned. And this is a gentle, beautiful way to introduce the subject to younger children. And this book shows the importances of telling a child that they will still have the memories of  that person even if they can’t remember.

In this adventure we get to travel through wormholes and through time.

And I’d never done this in a book.

This is a book all about family and keeping memories alive.