Sapphire Battersea

Author: Jacqueline Wilson Illustrator: Nick Sharratt

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 doesn't always go as planned...Follow the twists and turns of Hetty's 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 butcher's boy, who whisks her away from her household chores to experience the delights of the funfair! But Hetty's life may also take a darker path. Can she cope with the trials ahead?

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Sapphire Battersea

Hardback: 416 pages

Publisher: Random House 2011

ISBN: 9780440869276

Product Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm

950061 Sapphire Battersea £12.99

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