I love the fact Jacqueline Wilson included circus's, mediator's and freak show's into this series! I love them all and it is a great contrast compared to the foundling hospital and 19C London landscape. Bertie: The Butcher's boy and possible love interest for Hetty. Prior to the story, Bertie accidentally sliced of the top of three of his fingers on his left hand and was also in a workhouse at some point. After Hetty leaves Kingtown, he becomes taken with Mr. Buchanan's new servant, Rose-May, telling her he'd make a tippet out of rabbit skins for her. Bertie is constantly known for flirting with girls, including Hetty, Rose-May, and the two girls from the draper's shop. Hetty's new life is soon shattered when she accuses Mr. Buchanan of plagiarising her work after she finds a poorly written manuscript of her memoir in his office under the name Emerald Greenwich. Hetty is immediately fired. Before she leaves, Sarah gives Hetty her suitcase and Mrs. Briskett gives her a jar full of money as well as some food to take with her. Hetty goes to see Bertie for the last time before setting off to Bignor to be with her mother. Mr. Fanservice: In-Universe example. To all the girls in the village, as he's literally Tall, Dark, and Handsome. Born in London in 1876, Hetty is the daughter of Evelyn "Evie" Edenshaw and Robert "Bobbie" Waters. Robert did not know about this daughter because he went out to sea while Evelyn was pregnant. Evelyn was unable to raise her daughter alone, so she gave her to the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital named the baby "Hetty Feather", although her birth name is actually Sapphire Battersea.

Double Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. Dogged Nice Guy: Nothing Jem can do can subdue Hetty nor make her love him. Hetty eventually devolves into Jem's very-own Love Martyr. Hetty is fiery and has an extremely short fuse, struggling with discipline and authority. She cares deeply for those she loves and tries her best to be kind, but is often narcissistic and self-centered. She unintentionally hurts those around her, particularly her foster brother Jem as we see later on in the series. Although the love is mostly unrequited, there is some evidence to show that Hetty may have returned his feelings, particularly her strong reaction to Jem's marriage and discomfort at seeing Jem and Janet's life together in a vision. Sarah: Mr. Buchanan's parlourmaid, described as looking like a potato. Sarah, is a regular client of Madame Berenice's seances. Hetty chooses not to expose Madam Berenice as a fraud mainly for Sarah's sake. In Chapter One, Hetty introduces herself by claiming that her christened name is not her real one. She declares that she can vividly remember when her mother left her at the Foundling Hospital, and wonders what she was originally called. She describes her sapphire eyes as her best feature, but that her most distinguishable asset is her red hair. Hetty asserts that she has as fiery of a nature as she does hair.Before Hetty started her life in the Foundling Hospital, she went to a foster home first. She lived with her foster parents, Peg and John Cotton, for five years. In childhood, she became very close with her foundling brother Gideon Smeed, a boy who was only a few days younger than her. Jem Cotton, Hetty's foster brother and the youngest son of the Cottons, treated her very kindly. He became Hetty's favourite brother. Jem promised Hetty to remember her forever and wait for him when she left the Hospital. Meanwhile, she also grew attached to a red-headed circus performer called Madame Adeline, believing her to be her real mother.

Even though this book wouldn't be really categorised as a Romance. I found both Bertie and Jem's relationships with Hetty so cute! I do hope none of them are just playing her and making it seem like they both like her. I can't wait to see what is going to happen in the next book! I started this in my lunch break today, I had the evening in so when I got home from work I sat down to continue and read for just an hour, well 2 hours later I had finished the entire book. I just couldn't make myself put it down. I was swept up in Hetty's world and couldn't leave. When things go wrong she is on her own again, her life is a confusion and she must deal with conflicted love, loss and self discovery.I really enjoyed the book, because it was so different to all of Jacqueline's other books. Sapphire Battersea is what I would classify as historical fiction at its best. It's not girly, and not for the faint-hearted. It is quite dark at some points, and a really gripping and poignant book. Every chapter was very exciting, especially because at the beginning of the chapter there were a couple of shadows, showing what was going to happen in the chapter, which added to the book. Although older than the target market, I really liked this book. Hetty Feather/Sapphire Battersby is a really lovely character who is always up to mischief. This novel follows her journey after leaving the Foundling Hospital where she was left by her mother as a child. Sapphire Battersea is all about what comes next for Hetty. Hetty's life is never going to be without adventure, mischief and mayhem. Here is what the book is really about... In addition, Hetty keeps making the same constant mistake of letting her nostalgia and idolisation of people/certain places cloud her rationality and judgement. Hetty Feather/Sapphire Battersea/Emerald Star is the protagonist of the Hetty Feather series and the narrator. The series begins when Hetty is a child, and ends when she is in her late teens.

This is 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? About This Edition ISBN: Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold. After spending most of her childhood cooped up in the Foundling Hospital, Hetty is often confused, scared and in awe by the outside world. As she settles into her job, Hetty becomes a secretary of sorts to Mr. Buchanan, copying his stories as Mr. Buchanan's handwriting is hard to read. In return, Mr. Buchanan agrees to help refine Hetty's memoir, and to supply Hetty with stamps so she can continue to write to her mother. She also finds a potential love interest in Bertie, the local butcher's boy, who takes her out to the fair, on a boat ride, and for a walk in the park. Hetty also accompanies the parlourmaid, Sarah, to a seance with Madame Berenice, a medium. During the seance, an apparition of Hetty's long-dead foster brother, Saul, appears before Hetty, frightening her. Sheila Mayhew - Hetty's enemy at the Foundling Hospital. She follows Hetty to Ida's room one night and as a result their secret is revealed and Ida is fired. Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

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Setelah menamatkan buku pertamanya Hetty Feather.. kini petualangan di buku kedua juga seru abis! Sampe bela2in baca ampe tengah fajar... walaupun tebel, ga berasa... saking serunya :) Madame Berenice & Emily - A medium who holds séances. Hetty finds out that she and her sister, Emily, are frauds. Madame Berenice pretends to be possessed by the dead while Emily covers herself in a white veil, pretending to be a ghost.

Seems to constantly have to re-learn that it's not worth pursuing fame and fortune in place of happiness and peace. Hetty even lampshades this. I think the characters in this book were excellently written, and I felt Hetty next to me, telling me about all the strange things and scary or funny happenings in her life. I felt Bertie telling me jokes, and Hetty raising her eyebrows. In the kitchen, Hetty meets Mr. Buchanan's new servant girl, Rose-May, who reveals that Bertie is now taken with her. Upon hearing this, Hetty runs to the outhouse and vomits. While lamenting the fact that she's truly an orphan now, she hears Ida's voice informing her that she isn't an orphan - her father is still alive. The book ends with Hetty declaring "I am Sapphire Battersea", with the intent to seek out her father. Jem Cotton - Hetty's older foster brother. He waits for her outside the Hospital on the day she leaves but she is unable to converse with him. The two of them continue to communicate through letters.

When I realised that this novel was the second part of a trilogy I was a little concerned that, having not read any Wilson before and therefore not having read the first novel, I would be a little lost. However, that was not the case at all. Wilson appears to have developed the characters in this novel completely independently of the first book so you can easily read it as a stand alone. This is about the book character. For the TV show character, see Hetty Feather (TV show character). She also finds a potential love interest in Bertie, the local butcher's boy, who takes her out to the fair, on a boat ride, and for a walk in the park. Hetty also accompanies the parlour maid, Sarah, to a séance with the medium Madame Berenice. During the séance, a ghost of Hetty's long-dead foster brother, Saul, appears before Hetty. This frightens her. Hetty originally plans to become a writer but learns to love performing in the circus and on stage. Her search for identity, both as an individual and as part of a family, is what primarily characterises the book series. I read Hetty Feather last week after a recommendation from one of the girls at my Diving group. She also told me to read Sapphire Battersea, but at the time I didn't realise they were connected. When I finished Hetty Feather I was disappointed that the story hadn't finished but then I looked up this one and found it was the second one in what will be a trilogy, so of course I had to request it to read.