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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I love the adventure and mystery in this book. I love the way that she changes her name from Hetty Feather to Sapphire Battersea to change her identity. Sapphire Battersea gets help along the way to find her sick mother but she finds out her real father too living with a different family. She also is a servant for a posh, old man and goes to church with the other two servants every Sunday. She sets off for more adventures. no reviews | add a review
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Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her beautiful new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But things don'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 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? No library descriptions found. |
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Sapphire is the new life of Hetty, the same person, just with a different name. She travels to her business with Mr Buchanan, the hateful 'monkey-man', and sets off for walks each Sunday after church with the butcher's boy Bertie. He takes her to beautiful and marvellous places - the river, the fair and all sorts. But can Sapphire (Hetty) possibly survive alone? ( )