A fascinating funny and moving Victorian-era novel featuring Hetty Feather. Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby by her mother. But she always longed to be called Sapphire after her sapphire-blue eyes. When she is reunited with her mother she hopes her new name Sapphire Battersea will also mean a new life! But life doesnt always go as planned... Follow the twists and turns of Hettys adventure as she goes out to work as a maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhood sweetheart Jem - but also finds a new sweetheart Bertie the butchers boy who whisks her away from her household chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hettys life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?
