Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 15 December 2011.
With Jacqueline Wilson's trademark wit and humour, she has once again delivered a wonderfully moving story of life for a foundling, Hetty Feather, in Victorian London. In this second book featuring Hetty, we get to meet Hetty's mother who has found her and Hetty hopes that it means a new life and not just a new name, to Sapphire... Click here for the first adventure.
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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?
Sapphire Battersea features in the following genres: eBooks of the Month, Recommendations, Temporary Thema
Sapphire Battersea is available in Hardback
Sapphire Battersea was written by Jacqueline Wilson and published by Doubleday Children's Books an imprint of Random House Children's Books
