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Sadie Smith has had a degenerated hip since birth. On her way to a Barnardo's home, she is given a pair of scarlet ribbons by her mother who knows that she'll never see Sadie again.
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Emma Blair was born in Glasgow and now lives in Devon. She is the author of twenty bestselling novels, including MAGGIE JORDAN and HALF HIDDEN, the latter with which she was shortlisted for Romantic Novelist of the Year Award.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As an avid reader of Emma Blair novels I could not miss this one out of my reading list. It starts with a young girl named Saidie Smith who has a problem with her hip.Her father has TB so she is sent away to a childrens home so she does not catch this, then life threatening disease and also so her hip may be fixed. Saidie will never see her family again although she does not know this at the time. The Bardardoes home that she is at gives her and all her other friends the chance of a lifetime-the chance to emigrate to the country of their choice. Saidie chooses Canada so she can travel with her best friend. However when they arrive in Canada the pair are split up much to their dismay. Saidie ends up living with a cruel foster family who make her work day and night on a farm for only $2 per month. One day their is a freak hurricane which kills her foster father. Amazingly luck strikes her way again when she is offered an opportunity to work as a maid in a rich household. The family she works for treat her like part of their family. Saidie eventually ends up falling in love but when WW2 breaks out disaster strikes.It is not taxing read so anyone of any reading abilities may read it. In my opinion this is the best book of the century, without a doubt!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Sadie was one of 7, and was born with a degenerated hip and she could could not walk, her parents were poor, and her dad was dying of TB, when she was 4 years old she was sent to Dr Barnardo home,and there she had a successful operation so she could walk again. Sadie did not realise this was going to be her permanent home, when she was old enough Dr Barnardo told the children that they would have to leave and to choose a country where they would like to live with a foster family, Sadie and her best friend Janet decided on Canada, when they arrived much to there horror they were split up and Sadie went with a boy called Robbie to her new family which were awful to her, but Robbie and Sadie were like brother and sister, they made them work from morning to night for $3 a month, Robbie ran of when he was 15 years old, as he was fed up being treated like a slave.
When Sadie was 16 a twister occurred on the farm that killed her foster father that left Sadie with her foster mum who was evil, a young man was driving by and saw the devastation on the farm and talked to Sadie and invited her to be housemaid at there home, Edward came from a very rich and wealthy family. Over the next few years, Sadie would not go out with any other young men, as she was deeply in love with Edward, but he had other girl friends. When his sister got engaged Sadie went to the party and Edward realised what his feelings were towards Sadie, and they both ended up deeply in love, but the war has devastating effect on lives.
Twenty years later she meets by accident Robbie again, and they rekindle there old friendship
from there early days as children.
This was an excellent book and I will definitely read it again.
When Sadie was 16 a twister occurred on the farm that killed her foster father that left Sadie with her foster mum who was evil, a young man was driving by and saw the devastation on the farm and talked to Sadie and invited her to be housemaid at there home, Edward came from a very rich and wealthy family. Over the next few years, Sadie would not go out with any other young men, as she was deeply in love with Edward, but he had other girl friends. When his sister got engaged Sadie went to the party and Edward realised what his feelings were towards Sadie, and they both ended up deeply in love, but the war has devastating effect on lives.
Twenty years later she meets by accident Robbie again, and they rekindle there old friendship
from there early days as children.
This was an excellent book and I will definitely read it again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I found this story very good read, and so interesting, a story that held you to the end, one book that I would say buy it you would not be disappointed.
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