Opal Plumsted is fiercely intelligent a proud scholarship girl, with plans to go to university.Yet her dreams are shattered when her father is sent to prison, and 14 year old Opal must abandon school and start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory.
This is a book about a very rich girl who was dropped of at a boarding school by her beloved father who was a soldier. When her father dies her headmistress makes her work as a servant will she ever stop being a servant?