PLEASE HELP!!! me find this book. Someone must know what it is.

Can anyone help with this one. Written in the last decade or so, I think.
Fantasy/Possibly steam punk type story.
All I remember is an older couple whose house (or it might have been a shop) would move in the night. Do they'd open the curtains in the morning and be somewhere else the next day.
I'm fairly sure the same book also featured a knight that lived in another dimension waiting to have his final fight. The portal to this dimension was their downstairs toilet.

Yes I obviously should have been looking at Gymbunny’s post for the sea thing.

Seaward is a strange and haunting book. Not as well known as Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising sequence. It was written ( I think) after the death of her parents and is a kind of exploration of grief through myth. Well worth a reread.

Satsuki glad to be of help! Such a strange otherworldly book. I love Susan Cooper - something about your description just struck a chord: the gossamer thing maybe, and the fact you compared it to Diana Wynne Jones and Vivien Alcock. I feel like buying and rereading it again now, too!

Bless something is ringing bells about your post, but initially I'm only thinking about The Silver Chair by CS Lewis (one of the Narnia books, but one less well read than the early ones). Puddleglum the marsh-wiggle is described as a frog-man.

Well this is impressive so far! I can't help anyone else, unfortunately, but does this ring a bell with anyone? A journey deep underground to the centre of the earth with a character that was rather like a human size frog/man. That's all I can remember. This would have been 1970s or earlier.

I immediately thought of The Sea Baby too for Gymbunnie's post. I LOVE Seaward by Susan Cooper. Nearly named my baby after Callie!
I have a nagging one that I haven't posted about on these threads in the past as I remember so little about it but maybe I'll give it a try. A girl - possibly orphaned - who has a crown made of fabric, I think silver-coloured. The only thing I clearly remember is the description of the crown folding up- and possibly her sleeping with it under her pillow. Google has given me nothing so far!

Dancingledge The Kingdom by the Sea?

I have one too. Mine is for young children, maybe 5 or 6 year olds. It was hardback and a4 sized from memory. Each page had illustrations on it.

It was about Suzy’s first day at school. There was a naughty boy called Roddy in the story. It was an 80’s book. On the first page Suzy was hunting under her bed for a missing sock.

polly that is not mine but sounds like it might be the one gymbunnie was looking for?

wayfaresonbaby you little beauty!!! It is indeed Seaward, I'm sure of it! Cally for Calliope being descended from sea creatures brought it all rushing back! Amazing, thank you It has been years, incredible to get a title after all this time. Thanks for the thread nottheduchess and everyone who had suggestions, I've made some interesting discoveries as well. Going to have a glance and see if I can help anyone else.

Oh my god, minimoll so it is! Thank you. And I’ve just googled it and discovered the pottery is Farnham Pottery.

A boat and three men. Is it Cocoon?

Bestiswest - that's the Abbey Girls series by Elsie Oxenham, probably The Abbey Girls in Town as that has the pottery descriptions.

Can’t help anyone else but mine is about two sisters who were heavily into folk dancing. There was someone called ‘The Pixie’ or something. It was a series of books and in one they had left school and were living in London and there was some pottery involved - brown with gold lining and blue with a different lining.

I had no idea what was going on but I was mesmerised by the pottery.

Satsuki- yes, it is a short story. A girl lives in a village by the sea. A great storm pulls the sea back and a long lost undersea village is revealed with people asleep in all the houses. Girl goes out to village but has to run back as sea comes back in. So has some elements of your story, but if it’s a novel then can’t be it.

Have a look at Seaward as suggested by Wayfaresonbaby above. That is certainly strange and uncanny.

Oh, been trying to find a book for years.Hope someone can help.
Set in WW2, a boy is bombed out of his home, but somehow gets separated from his family, and sets off on a long journey, maybe to find them? Gains a dog. Walks across a causeway, (to Lindisfarne?) gets caught out by tide and has to shelter in one of those refuges on stilts.
Eventually is reunited with some of his family, but not a happy ending, as they're pretty crap.
Must have been written by about 1997, but don't know if it was old then
Thanks
Feel quite excited to refind it.

Elisheva, just looked at The Great Brain on Wikipedia. Yes! It is! Thank you so much! Off to see if it's still in print.

Remus is the school one Hilary of Highlands by Winifred Norling?

EmilyDickinson Is it The Great Brain by John Fitzgerald?

Thank you fozzley for the extra info. It could be it. I remember the feel of it as being quite surreal and uncanny, with a lot of emphasis on the fantasy element, rather than straightforward. The boy and girl is familiar.

polly I came across that before when I was trying to find it - can't find a synopsis and it seems to be a short story? whereas I'm sure it was a novel. Thank you.

onlyliving (I like your name, I always hear Simon and Garfunkel when I see it) that's an interesting one, as I have 3 of her books on the shelf next to me, so it could be a possibility, though I thought it was more modern. I've just seen it is 49p on Kindle so might get it and see if it rings any bells.

Satsuki, could it perchance have been Seaward by Susan Cooper (author of the more famous The Dark is Rising)? I don't think it is set underwater but the main character, Cally, is descended from a selkie/sea creature and has visions of life underwater. There's also a companion boy character, Westerly. Maybe it's not this book but Cooper does love the word "gossamer"!

I have one. It is a story about a boy with a brother (older I think) who is great at solving problems. I'm pretty sure it's set in small town America. Each chapter concerned a problem that one of the people in the town had I think. One chapter made a particular impression. Another boy had trodden on a rusty nail playing somewhere where he shouldn't have been. He was scared of getting into trouble so didn't tell his parents, got gangrene and his leg was amputated at the knee. I was quite shocked by this but the book treats it matter of factly. The boy's parents come to the brother of the narrator for help as their son is becoming reclusive. The brother straps an artificial leg on himself to work out the best way of getting upstairs etc and teaches the child on how to ways to cope with his disability.

This, maybe

Satsuki - is yours Wet Magic by E. Nesbit? I loved her books.

ooh it must have been linked to this

Don't think it's Chalet School. I think it was maybe set in WW2. It might not even have been fiction, although I honestly can't remember.

RemusLupin - the school one sounds like one of The Chalet School stories