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| name          = A Pattern of Roses
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| image         = A Pattern of Roses.jpg
| caption = First edition
| author        = [[K. M. Peyton]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
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| genre         = [[Children's]]
| publisher     = [[Oxford University Press]]
| pub_date      = 1972
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| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover]])
| pages         = 132 pp
| isbn =  0-19-271347-7
| congress= PZ7.P4483 Pat
| oclc= 595666
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'''''A Pattern of Roses''''' is a 1972 children's novel by British author [[K. M. Peyton]], about a mystery and a ghost.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1973-07-01 |title=A Pattern of Roses |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/k-m-peyton-4/a-pattern-of-roses/ |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]]}}</ref> It was issued in the US under the title ''So Once Was I'' in 1975, but subsequent editions have used the original title.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Pattern of Roses by K M Peyton |url=https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/k-m-peyton/pattern-of-roses.htm |access-date=2025-02-08 |website=Fantastic Fiction |archive-date=10 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210035318/https://www.fantasticfiction.com/p/k-m-peyton/pattern-of-roses.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The novel was made into a television film in 1983. The film was the first significant on screen role for [[Helena Bonham Carter]]; the cast also included [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]] and [[Suzanna Hamilton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Pattern of Roses (1983) |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/a-pattern-of-roses-1983 |access-date=2023-12-10 |website=[[The A.V. Club]] |language=en |archive-date=10 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231210035635/https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/a-pattern-of-roses-1983 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Plot summary==
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, Tim Ingram uncovers a mystery about the 15-year-old boy who once lived in the house and died in 1910 (1914 in the movie). With the help of his friend Rebecca, Tim investigates, but finds events from the past being mirrored in his own life.

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== Further reading ==
* {{Cite journal |last=Townsend |first=John Rowe |date=1984 |title=A Second Look: "A Pattern of Roses." |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ301281 |journal=[[Horn Book Magazine]] |language=en |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=361–64}}
* {{Cite journal |last=Butler |first=Andrew M. |date=2011 |title=Review of Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24353184 |journal=[[Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts]] |volume=22 |issue=2 (82) |pages=263–266 |jstor=24353184 |issn=0897-0521}}
* {{Cite book |last=Waller |first=Alison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bK-TAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+Pattern+of+Roses%22++K.+M.+Peyton&pg=PP1 |title=Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism |date=2010-12-22 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-90463-0 |language=en}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Flack |first1=Jerry D. |last2=Lamb |first2=Pose |date=September 1984 |title=Making Use of Gifted Characters in Literature |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107621758400700501 |journal=G/C/T |language=en |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=3–11 |doi=10.1177/107621758400700501 |issn=0164-9728|url-access=subscription }}


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