|summary=The companion novel to Berlie Doherty's bestselling story ''Street Child'' kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time whilst reading. It tugs at the heart strings as the book goes in to detail about how Victorian mill girls spent their days working in horrific conditions and being subjected to little food and education.
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Lizzie and Emily Jarvis can no longer be in the care of their mother as she has become severely ill. She leaves them in the care of her best friend, a cook, but when things go wrong, the girls are sent to the mills where they are worked each day till they are beyond exhausted and the only thing that keeps them going is counting down the days till they are able to leave.