Charity Author:Lesley Pearse Charity Strattion's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her paretns are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brother and sister, Charity is sent our to work as a skivvy in a boy's boarding school. Her lonliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh M... more »ainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realizes just how alone she really is. Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life.« less