Sapphire Battersea
In Victorian London, fourteen year old Hetty Feather leaves the Foundling Hospital and begins work as a scullery maid while pursuing her ambition to become a writer. She reunites with her mother, Ida, but their new life is disrupted when Ida becomes seriously ill. Hetty also encounters her former foster brother Jem and begins to navigate first love, independence, and the search for her father.
FictionChildrensHistorical FictionFamilyAdventure
DoubleDay · First published 2011 · 394 pages
