A compelling historical fiction novel that follows the journey of Lucy Pocket, a young woman born out of wedlock to a fourteen-year-old mother. Raised by her charming but disreputable grandmother, Eva, Lucy's life is marked by poverty and instability as they move from one poor lodging house to another, resorting to theft to survive.Lucy's circumstances change when her wealthy paternal grandfather buys her from Eva, intending to raise her as a lady. However, after her grandfather's death, his unscrupulous nephew cheats Lucy out of her inheritance, leaving her with only a rundown lodging house in Whitechapel. Here, she is forced to care for his three illegitimate children. Despite being jilted by her would-be fiancé, Lucy is determined to make a life for herself and the children, and to search for her long-lost grandmother, creating the family she has always longed for.