I wonder if it is actually a blooper myself. I mean who is to say that the author didn't decide to write about her character when she was a year younger than in the earlier book. A.C. Doyle penned Hound of the Baskervilles after The Final Problem but set it at a time before then and C.S. Forster didn't stay linear when writing about Horatio Hornblower I understand. That is he wrote out of sequence as far as his characters age etc. from one book to another.
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