Children's Fiction

An Acceptable Time

by Madeleine L'Engle · Time Quintet series

Meg's daughter Polly is drawn three thousand years into the past, where a standing stone connects her to a druids' circle and a healer who sees across time. The final Quintet novel returns to L'Engle's preoccupation with time as porous, love as continuity, and faith as something practiced rather than declared.

Time Quintet in reading order

• 1. A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L'Engle
• 2. A Wind in the Door — Madeleine L'Engle
• 3. A Swiftly Tilting Planet — Madeleine L'Engle
• 4. Many Waters — Madeleine L'Engle
• 5. An Acceptable Time — Madeleine L'Engle

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