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The wonderfully nostalgic, vibrant and engaging new book from the Sunday Times top-five best-selling author of A Loving Family. From the age of eight, 16-year-old Charity Crosse has been living abrasive with her grandfather and begging on the avenues. When her grandfather dies, Charity is helped by way of a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller Jethro Dawkins. Jethro needs Charity directly into help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop. Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well cured, but Jethro instills in her the love of catalogs that commenced when her grandmother taught her to learn. And she starts off to hope for an improved future for herself. But Jethro dies unexpectedly, and Charity is faced with eviction when the hire is lifted by the unethical landlord. Must Charity quit her imagine jogging the bookshop herself, and, worse, be forced to return to the streets...?