Sapphire Battersea

Sapphire Battersea--------------------------------------------------A fascinating, funny and moving Victorian-era novel featuring HettyFeather. Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given hername when she was left there as a baby by her mother. But she alwayslonged to be called Sapphire, after her sapphire-blue eyes. When sheis 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...Followthe twists and turns of Hetty's adventure as she goes out to work asa maid for a wealthy man. She longs to be reunited with her childhoodsweetheart Jem - but also finds a new sweetheart, Bertie the butcher'sboy, who whisks her away from her household chores to experience thedelights of the funfair! But Hetty's life may also take a darker path.Can she cope with the trials ahead?--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: JACQUELINE WILSON is an extremely well-known andhugely popular author who served as Children's Laureate from 2005-7.She has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, including theBritish Children's Book of the Year and the Guardian Children's FictionAward (for The Illustrated Mum), the Smarties Prize and the Children'sBook Award (for Double Act, for which she was also highly commendedfor the Carnegie Medal). In 2002 Jacqueline was given an OBE for servicesto literacy in schools and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. She wasthe author most borrowed from British libraries in the last decade.'A brilliant writer of wit and subtlety' THE TIMES 'She should be prescribedfor all cases of reading reluctance' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'Has a raregift for writing lightly and amusingly about emotional issues' BOOKSELLER.