Charity Av Lesley Pearse

<p><b><u>A heartbreaking historical novel from the No.1 bestselling author of <i>Stolen</i></u></b><br><br>Charity Stratton''s bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys'' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh''s baby she soon realises just how alone she really is. <br><br>Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life.</p>