Forgotten book title and authors

[RyanBergarasTeeth]

Starting a thread for Forgotten book titles feel free to add your own and see if anyone can find it. I will start. When i was at schook we had to read a book and all i remember from it was:
The main character is a boy with older parents who are a bit strange but he doesnt know why. He ends up going to an open day at camebridge uni with said weird parents. Something happens i think one of the professors recognises him which is weird as he has never been and he sees a photo of himself but doesnt know how as he was never there. Eventually he confronts his parents who tell him the truth. They had a son who was killed either sickness or an accident so after he died they had his dna cloned and out into an embryo so his mother gave birth to him the clone of the original son.

Unique by Alison Allen-Gray

Oohthank you i will have a look now.

Thats it thank you!!!

I have loads of these! YA fiction, bugged me for years:

young girl is a talented gymnast, she becomes part of an elite training group. She's really excited but it soon becomes apparent the girls have no life outside gymnastics, are pushed extremely hard with vast amount of pressure from coaches to win. Story is increasingly sinister and ends with one of the more sweet natured girls (Beth? Possibly misremembered) dying after attempting a difficult jump in competition that she knew was beyond her at the insistence of the adults. In hindsight I can see it must have been a sort of version of what happened to the Soviet gymnasts. Loved it as a young teen.

Oooh, I remember that one!

Mine is from a seventies childhood, probably written in the fifties (or possibly even thirties, from what I remember of the illustrations).

I'm pretty sure it was called Here Comes a Candle, not by Jane Aiken Hodge.

Oooooooh! I've just googled again to check the other author who comes up (fredric brown) and have spotted what I think may actually be it!

Thanks for this, I may be buying a book.

I have bought a book.

www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/rare-books/norman-s-pugh/here-comes-a-candle/1546589072TMB?gclid=CjwKCAjw5cL2BRASEiwAENqAPrVk2WCeajbGjncVVJJ5yY17y_lwt3Pr1EHpPobbhTK-yqiMGZHgMhoC2hoQAvD_BwE

Oh thats great! Sadly i am awful at knowing these books. The gymnast one sounds familiar. Hopefully other knowledgable people can help on that one.

Two i briefly remember ya fictions one is about a girl who thinks she might have been kidnapped at birth and sold to her parents.

Another about a girl whos little sister went missing years ago and it turns out the uncle accidently killed her in his van and buried her in his garden. The sister finds her necklace in a flowerbed and thats how she starts to unravel it.

Llamapolice, it’s ‘The Fortunate Few’ by Tim Kennemore.

@Llamapolice That sounds like The Fortunate Few by Tim Kennemore

Simultaneous posting there!

… I assume, you like Diana Wynn Jones, pollyhemlock?

Wynne, rather.

Yes, definitely 'The Fortunate Few' - a brilliant book. Tim Kennemore wrote some absolute classics in the 70s/80s.

As a child or young teen I read a timeslip type book were the girl was timetravelling between her own time and the Victorian era

I only remember there was an argument between her and her teacher about whether they had wellies in those days

I am pretty sure it wasn't Charlotte Sometimes or A Traveler In Time which fit the idea as they are both the wrong time period.

Yes, Matilda you’ve sussed me out as a DWJ fan!

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies @pollyhemlock oooh thank you both so much, I just googled it and even seeing the cover took me back!

I have a couple of others, I might be back here soon

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit could it be the lottie project by jacqueline wilson?

I actually don't think I've read ANY JW

She was out but hadn't yet hit popularity and by the time she did I was too old for her stuff

Lottie Project was out when I was 16/17

Right. I post this every single time, and nobody has ever ever got it, all my friends will know this is me as I go on about it all the time.
Girl lives in London with parents. Late teens probably. Finds magic tube train that takes her to weird and wonderful stations like “Dome”. Makes a friend, friend seems a bit weird and wild. Turns out she is having some kind of breakdown and all is in her head. Friend is possibly the imaginary friend she had as a child, stations are just bog standard stations - Dome is St Paul’s.
I don’t even think the book was that great, I am just so annoyed that I can’t remember it! It is not Neverwhere, which is what people always suggest.

I have put my request on Abebooks as well, so if you see the same question there, that is me!

No idea cake but i would love to read that if you ever find its name!

EineReiseDurchDieZeit

I think the time travel one may be Moondial by Helen Cresswell. There was a BBC adaptation of it in the late 80s/early 90s. The lead character was a girl called Minty, short for Araminta.

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit if Moondial isn’t correct, I’d suggest ‘Come Back, Lucy’.

I was a big fan of Moondial as a child its not it, or Come Back Lucy, no supernatural element

Sorry! Thanks for trying to help

I loved Charlotte Sometimes - thanks for reminding me