The Pick-Pocket Orphans

Thirteen-year-old Alice Truelove can't take another day of her father's cruelty.Better a life on the streets than being constantly blamed for her mother's sad death, or that's what Alice thinks as she packs up her meagre possessions. But fending for herself in the Black Country town of Wednesbury is not as easy as she expected, and it soon hits her that without help she will quickly be hungry and ...