Margery Fisher, in a 1969 review for her children's literature journal "Growing Point", wrote, "Like "Emma in Winter", this is really a study in disintegration, the study of a girl finding an identity by losing it... Above all, here is a dream-allegory which teaches not through statement but through feeling. We sense the meaning of Charlotte's changes of identity in the way that she senses them herself... is a book of quite exceptional distinction... a haunting, convincing story which comes close to being a masterpiece of its kind..."