Hettty Feather is a beautiful book about a girl named Hetty Feather. She is tragically abandoned as a baby at the Foundling Hospital, but it is NOT very hospitable at all. Thankfully when she was only a few weeks old a caring foster mother took her in and brought her up in a homely cottage in the countryside.

Her new foster family consists of an extremely kindly boy called Jem. There's also Rosie and Eliza, Nat who loves his woodwork, Marcus who'd gone away to become a soldier, and Bess and Nora, who are away in service. Youngest before Jem were Martha and Saul, who were also fostered. Lastly there was Gideon, who was fostered the same time as Hetty. But suddenly Martha, then Saul, are sent back to the Hospital at the age of 6. Then it's Hetty and Gideon's turn. Hetty is traumatised when she has to part with her beloved Jem, but is taken in by the Hospital all the same.

Poor Hetty does not fit in there at all, but is welcomed by kindly kitchen maid Ida Battersea, who sprinkles sugar on her porridge and gives her extra potatoes. Unfortunate Hetty Feather is forced to do the same rountine everyday; get up, put on itchy clothes, help with household chores, eat breakfast, school, lunchbreak, chores, wash, darning session, bed. But one day something out of the ordinary happens: the horrifiying matrons announce that the foundlings have the chance to meet the Queen for her Golden Jubilee, and that before that happens, they shall be able to roam freely and go on any rides they like. But mischievous Hetty obviously gets lost, and travels on an Omnibus to who-knows-where, and has to survive life on the streets. Will her search for her real mother be successful? Find out if you read it!!!
"Hetty Feather" is a brilliant book, showing you just what it was like in a Foundling Hospital in the 1800s. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I recommend it to people who like a long book that keeps getting better.

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