Description

Twelve-year-old Eliza Braggs has recognized little in life-but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Residing above her uncle’s chandlery she's grown familiar with a safety of her older sibling, her only ease the love and life of servitude and penury, Bart.But oneday Bart inadvertently kills a guy and is forced to flee to New Zealand. Alone, barefoot, crushed down and at the whim of her cruel uncle, Eliza understands that her very survival is at stake…