The Little Angel

Days of the Week #2

by Rosie Goodwin

From Sunday Times bestselling author of Mothering Sunday, Rosie Goodwin, comes the next in this heartwarming and heartbreaking Christmas treat.

1896, Nuneaton.

Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning, who has never been blessed with a child of her own. Kitty brings sunshine and joy wherever she goes, and grows into a beguiling and favoured young girl. But then Kitty is summoned to live in London with her birth mother.

At first London offers Kitty excitement and adventure. With her delicate beauty and the voice of an angel, she attracts a promising singing career and the attention of a number of dashing suitors.

But those now close to Kitty are not what they seem, and her comforting old home at Treetops starts to feel very far away. If Kitty is to have any change of happiness, this little angel must protect herself from devils in disguise . . . and before it's too late.

Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Catherine Cookson.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction

498 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2017

About the author

Before becoming a writer, I was a Placement Support Worker and foster carer, and worked in the social services department after completing a teacher training course. Many children have joined my family over the years. I still live in Nuneaton, where many of my books are set, with my husband, Trevor, and our beloved dogs.

I was thrilled to discover that I'd become one of the top 250 most-borrowed library authors in the UK, and would like to thank all of you who have taken out my books over the last few years! I love meeting my readers and am always pleased to hear from you. I hope you will all continue to get in touch and please do sign up for my newsletter!

Reviews

[Miriam Smith (A Mother’s Musings) · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you first start to read this story, you can't help but fall in love with little adorable Kitty. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home as a newborn she captures the heart of the reader and her guardian Sunday Branning. As she grows into a beautiful and talented young lady, Kitty is summoned to live with her birth mother in London. But those now close to Kitty are not what they seem and she now must protect herself from devils in disguise.
This was a beautiful story and a total joy to read that gently rolls you into storyline, introducing the main characters from a young age. Although quite emotional with some truly heartbreaking moments it was a delightful story that is the perfect heartwarming Christmas tale. Although I'm not sure on the name Sunday for one of the characters - it's not a name that I took to myself - all are perfectly portrayed to the early 1900's era and you can't help but warm to the many loveable and friendly staff at the children's home.
Written by Sunday Times bestseller Rosie Goodwin, this was the first book I have read by this author and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this "The Little Angel" or read more by Rosie again in the future.

4 stars

[Deanne Patterson · Rating 5 out of 5]

First off you'll have to admit this is such an eye catching beautiful cover! Wow, wow and wow again! My emotions have run the gamut here from relieved and happy to shocked and tears flowing.
A young couple run the Treetops Children's Home an orphanage that takes in foundling children. The main characters of the children are Maggie and Kitty, they are 6 month apart in age. Kitty is the darling of the family small,petite,dainty and gets prettier every year. Maggie is the plain Jane but sturdy and sensible one. The girls each go to a family but neither have the life they envisioned . Maggie has an abusive and manipulative father and Kitty's mother is that way. Kitty goes on to become a singing star like her mother but she gets taken advantage of her mother and in her naivety by men as well. Many secrets are revealed by the end of the book, some I saw coming and some I didn't. The girls make their way back home at the end of the book to Treetops Children's Home, of course by this time they are both grown. This book was absolutely amazing and you know an author has the right stuff when she can make the reader feel the emotions they feel when reading her book.
Pub Date 02 Nov 2017
Thank you to NetGalley and Bonnier Zaffre for a review copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Shirley Revill · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book. Brilliant story. Highly recommended.

[Miriam Smith (A Mother’s Musings) · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you first start to read this story, you can't help but fall in love with little adorable Kitty. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home as a newborn she captures the heart of the reader and her guardian Sunday Branning. As she grows into a beautiful and talented young lady, Kitty is summoned to live with her birth mother in London. But those now close to Kitty are not what they seem and she now must protect herself from devils in disguise.
This was a beautiful story and a total joy to read that gently rolls you into storyline, introducing the main characters from a young age. Although quite emotional with some truly heartbreaking moments it was a delightful story that is the perfect heartwarming Christmas tale. Although I'm not sure on the name Sunday for one of the characters - it's not a name that I took to myself - all are perfectly portrayed to the early 1900's era and you can't help but warm to the many loveable and friendly staff at the children's home.
Written by Sunday Times bestseller Rosie Goodwin, this was the first book I have read by this author and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this "The Little Angel" or read more by Rosie again in the future.
4 stars

[Deanna Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced copy.

Holy Moly!!! I absolutely loved that book!! There was a lots of twists and turns.

I can't imagine what they going through alots of sad news. It took me my own surprise that I couldn't put the book down and loved every pages!

I loved the name is Kitty and she's seemed a very nice girl turned into a beautiful young woman. I was surprised that she had a twins!! But, sad to see them passed away.

This is an excellent book ever!!!

[Brenda Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good second book from Rosie Goodwin. like her books great author recommend.

[Abbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kitty was dumped on the steps of the Treetops orphanage when she was just a baby. Each year an envelope is placed on the same steps full of money to take care of her for another year. Kitty doesn't think much about her birth mother as she is happily settled with Sunday and Tom the orphanage owners. However, just before her eighteenth birthday, she is summoned to London to live with her mother. Her life changes drastically, as she becomes a singer and model and can suddenly afford luxuries. She quickly forgets about her past life, but this is definitely a case of being careful what you wish for.

So I received this book in a monthly subscription box where you get sent four random books. I would never have picked this up just based on the cover, but I was very pleasantly surprised. I thought this would just be a typical historical romance but it was anything but. This was actually really dark and upsetting in some places. This really touched on just how little women were respected and treated at the time and how they had basically no rights. It also showed the reality of war.

The writing was great and was easy to get along with. It followed multiple people but was never confusing. Overall, I'm really glad I read this and definitely shows why you should never judge a book by it's cover!

[joan caryl jewitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful book!

I have enjoyed reading this book, the first I have read by this author, and feel sure that I want to read many more.
I am so glad that there are so many more for me to look forward to reading.

[Ian Mcnamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this can be read as a stand alone book, I would recommend that you read Mothering Sunday first as you'll get to know some of the characters in the story better. This is the story of Kitty a little girl who is left abandoned on the steps of treetops manner house as a baby. She is well loved by Sunday Branning her Gardian who is struggling to have children of her own. However as she gets older because she's so beautiful it's hard for her to resist the attraction of mean people. She's lowered to London to live with her birth mother but can she protect herself from being used and exploited. This was a fantastic book and there were some very very moving parts in it, I was hooked into the story from start to finish and it was lovely to meet the characters from the first book and meet new ones as well. I am a big fan of this author already and think she's an author I will be reading for a long time to come.

[Tracey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Rosie Goodwin! Another interesting read full of emotional ups and downs. This book started as a gentle but touching tale but as time passed and the story progressed the plot turned gritty and had plenty of dangerous situations. Saga writing at its best.

[Kathy E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great read by Rosie a little sad at the end but I couldn't put it down.

[Kristina Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin is the second book in Days of the Week series. The story begins in December of 1896 in the village of Nuneaton. Sunday Branning and her husband, Tom run Treetops Children’s Home. One day there is a knock on the door and when they open the door they find a baby girl on the doorstep. There is a note with the child who is named Kitty along with money for her care. Sunday, who is unable to have children of her own, is instantly taken with Kitty and grows to love her more each day. When Kitty turns seventeen, Miss Phyllis Fox arrives. Miss Fox is there on behalf of Kitty’s mother, Ruby Darling who wishes Kitty to join her in London. Kitty desires to know her birth mother and departs for London the next day. Ruby Darling is a singer who works the theater, but, as she gets older, there are fewer opportunities for her. Kitty has an angelic singing voice and Ruby starts grooming her for a stage career. Kitty is not wise to the ways of the world and she needs to be careful whom she trusts. Not everyone in Kitty’s life has her best interests at heart. Discover what happens to Kitty in The Little Angel.

I did not read the first book in Days of the Week series, and I did not feel like I was missing anything. I was able to enjoy The Little Angel without any difficulties. The Little Angel is nicely written and has a gentle pace. The cover is just lovely. I found The Little Angel to be an interesting story. I kept reading to find out what would happen to Kitty. I did find myself yelling at my Kindle on occasion telling Kitty to wise up. One of the themes in the book is to learn from our mistakes. We all make errors in judgement, but we need to learn from them and do better in the future. The Little Angel is an emotional story with some heartbreaking scenes. The Little Angel takes the reader full circle with the ending. It was lovely stepping back in time with The Little Angel.

[Angela L · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are certain genres of books where you broadly know what you're going to get. For a decent saga you need to have characters that are loveable that you can warm too, a couple of villains of the piece to mentally boo and a storyline that cossets you like a blanket with the odd surprise chucked in.
Rosie Goodwin sticks to the formula brilliantly in The Little Angel. It mainly focuses on the story of Kitty - a foundling brought up in a children's home, under the loving wings of Tom and Sunday. Every year a mysterious benefactor leaves money for Kitty's upkeep and her world turns when her mother claims her as a teenager.
Relocated to London under the "care" of her feckless mother Ruby (a singer whose star is waning rapidly) it's not long before Kitty is being led down a dangerous road.
There are plenty of side plots to keep you turning the pages, involving a fine supporting cast of characters.
There's the perfect match of happy every after tinged with sadness, which means it avoids being trite or schmaltzy. The perfect holiday read.

[Heather Copping · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow what an absolutely fantastic book, right from the beginning I was drawn into the story and just loved the story of Kitty and Maggie, not forgetting Sunday and Tom at Treetops children's home. I had not read the first book "mothering sunday" but that did not spoil reading this great book one bit. Kitty went from being a foundling at the children's home to being reunited with her mother in London and has many ups and downs during the first world war in the music halls and theatres to a more seedy side. I personally didn't like the character of her mother Ruby who you could see was only out for what she could make from Kitty. This book has many emotions covered and you may need a tissue ready at the end. I have read other books by Rosie Goodwin and this one is up there with the best of them.

[mois reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Angel

This was a tear jerker from page one I loved it Sunday and Tom were so down to earth Kitty was a beauty but in the end it was Maggie's beauty that shone through . Poor Kitty she was really took in by Ruby of only foxy had said who she was it could of been a lot different . But it worked out in the end wish I could of awarded a ten star review but definitely 5 STARS .

[Tracy ann Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

highly recommend have read all rosie s books and always a brilliant storyline

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Really enjoyed this book, it was easy to read and I thought the characters were very likeable. Great book!

[Tony Hisgett · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is not a genre I would normally read, but it was a low price offer from Amazon and I just though I would try something different.
I wasn’t expecting historical accuracy but this was more like a ‘fairy story’.

I finished about I quarter of the book but I found myself skipping pages and just hoping there was going to be something more substantial to the story. Finally I decided that this just wasn’t for me. I suppose 'nothing ventured nothing gained', in this case it was 'nothing gained'.

[Lynda Meyers · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enjoyable read but I really wish that we got to see the villain in the story(Richard) get his comeuppance! Also I wasn't expecting such a sad ending although these things can happen in real life.

[Susan Mcknight · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can never fault Rosie Goodwin, love all her characters

[Sarah Harding · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not my usual type and is certainly not one I would choose to read but it was given to me to read. However I really enjoyed it. Good story, very well written, much better than I thought it would be. I have learnt that you should never judge a book by its cover. Well done Rosie Goodwin 👍

[Nicci · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant, after reading book 1 of the Days of the week series I was worried this book wouldn't be as captivating but it absolutely is and I could hardly put it down.

[Nicky Mottram · Rating 5 out of 5]

Audio version of this book 📚- Second book in the series and just as good as the first ! A nice easy listen and great narration

[Simone McKenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow! Yet another deeply absorbing and gripping read from Rosie Goodwin!

Now, where do I begin with this one? This was definitely a very eventful book, with it just having been packed with so much with so many different arcs and storylines going on, which I guess if I'm honest was both a good and bad thing. It was exciting seeing everything that was going on and just how eventful things got, but could also be a bit too much to keep up with at the same time, as we of course had the main plot/storyline of Kitty going to live with her birth mother in London where she ends up getting badly exploited by older men, then of course there's the storyline of Sunday and Tom's strained marriage after Sunday finds out that he had a son through another woman who also just turns out to be one of the children they have cared for, then there's suddenly Cissie's storyline/subplot of reuniting with the son she gave birth to all those years ago in the mental asylum which actually doesn't come 'til much later in the story, then there is of course the whole, big event of World War I starting and the men having to enlist, so there really does end up being a lot to keep up with.

This was essentially the sequel to the previous book, Mothering Sunday, and so I was really interested and excited to return to Sunday and Tom and the rest of the Treetops gang and seeing how they were all getting on now after all these years. It was beautiful seeing that after all Sunday had gone through in the previous book, she had come so far since then by starting her own home for waifs and orphans that unlike the workhouse had been for her was actually full of love and care. Sunday however, while still a central character, is no longer the main protagonist herself, for that role has now gone to Kitty, one of their foundling children who was left at Treetops. Ever since she was a young child, Kitty has always been incredibly attractive and beautiful, attracting constant admiration and attention, and as she gets older, becomes an ultimate Dude Magnet, with constant male attention and endless male admirers, which actually ends up being more of a curse than a blessing, as is depicted throughout the story. This story really focuses on the importance of home and family, and what that really means, especially when it comes to the role of being a parent. For instance, we have Kitty's birth mother, Ruby, who is extremely hands-off with Kitty, showing her basically no love or care, while also being far too permissive of her, and all in all is an absolutely selfish and immature airhead, having only asked for her daughter back to use her as a means. Then we have Sunday and Tom, who have genuinely loved and cared for Kitty all her life, are kind, level-headed and respectable people, even if they have kept her a bit sheltered, and actually have her best interests at heart.

I found Kitty's relationship with Richard to be perhaps the most disturbing and unsettling thing I have read, and if I'm honest, while the concept of older women exploiting and preying on younger women was very on point and an important issue to focus on, I couldn't help but feel like it dragged on too long. It was especially annoying the way Kitty's infatuation with him continues for another four years, as while I can understand her being naively besotted with him when she was still a teenager, especially after how sheltered she'd been, it got a bit too much and fatiguing after a while, like it just dragged on too much and got a bit repetitive I just found myself getting increasingly annoyed and impatient screaming to myself "OMG when is she going to finally wake up and smell the coffee already?!" The way she even forgives him and returns to him even after he forced her or at least blackmailed her into having sex with his older friends was just ridiculous. I understand she was meant to be naive but I just really couldn't believe just how naive she was at times to the point it just got exasperating. In fact I'm not sure she ever really sees Richard for who he is, or at least she doesn't voice it. But got Richard was the most vile, odious creature ever, that I was disappointed he was not shown getting his comeuppance, just that the police were after him, but not showing if they ever caught him or not.

I also found Cissie's storyline of reuniting with her long-lost son after 34 years to be a bit pointless, as it didn't really add anything and had no connection whatsoever with Kitty's main story. I'm not sure how I really felt with the whole Ben lying to her about him having apologised and regretted his actions, not to mention destroying the incriminating evidence of him, because the guy was such a nasty piece of work that it didn't seem right giving Cissie the wrong idea-even if they didn't want to tell her worrying that it might badly affect her (which is fair enough) he could have just not lied about him saying that. His comeuppance should have been more fitting too, rather than just being killed in the war. In reality, not every single mother reunites or manages to reunite at that with her long-lost son that was taken from her years ago, so it might have been a bit more realistic to just simply not touch upon this. After all it didn't really fit in with the current story. We already had a male antagonist in the story to hate anyway, so we didn't really need another, who was also the son of the previous book's antagonist of course and didn't really fit in the rest of the story.

Still, I did really enjoy reading about the adventures at Treetops and Kitty's tumultuous journey in London. I absolutely despised Ruby and Richard- I know we're supposed to but honestly I just couldn't stand them and felt they were present for far too long, and Richard especially just needed his comeuppance. Miss Fox and Maggie were of course the only sane people around Kitty, and thus the most likeable. That's another thing, I loved Maggie's story arc, it was really interesting seeing her friendship with Kitty develop after having been rivals with her when they were children. Maggie really was a great character, as I knew straight from the start that despite all the mild bullying towards Kitty when they were younger, she was never a bad person, quite the opposite in fact and actually has a great heart as Miss Fox rightly points out, and was always simply just insecure about her looks and everything, especially when compared to Kitty, so much that the sympathy you feel for her is really strong and really resonates, with her definitely being a more relatable character in this respect than the usual, more conventionally beautiful and charming female protagonists of these stories like Kitty herself. She is also a lot wiser and streetwise than Kitty, and you feel your heart particularly goes out to her after hearing everything she has gone through with her adoptive family, the Daweses, who we are given a negative vibe about initially, but then hear they have been far worse than we expected. Poor Maggie, I was just so glad things worked out for her in the end.

That's another thing, perhaps what I most admired the unpredictability when it came to the love interests, as I was honestly expecting Kitty and Ben to end up together, after the scene with them dancing together at the New Years Eve party being somewhat of a hint. However, what I actually only just realised at a later point, was unlike with RG's other stories, neither of them were actually shown constantly thinking about each other while they were separated. Instead, RG takes us on an interesting U-turn as she ends up pairing Maggie with Ben, which I really liked as I think it was great to show a not-so conventionally attractive female character find love, in what is also a more conventionally attractive partner (even if he did end up with facial disfigurement), rather than just superficially restricting the romances to the conventionally beautiful characters, which is often the case. Maggie definitely deserved it the most too, and I was so happy to see this. I was really happy as well to see that it focused on inner-beauty as well as outer-beauty for once, and the importance of this, and how Maggie is always beautiful to Ben, and had a nice bit of Jane Eyre inspo when we see Ben now feeling self-conscious about his appearance due to his facial disfigurements from the war and Maggie of course having always realised she's plain, but they still see each other as beautiful, because that's all that really matters, rather than what everyone else thinks. Many of Goodwin's novels tend to mention the (outer) beauty of characters a lot, especially when it's the guys admiring the girls, with their thoughts on how beautiful and attractive they are being repeated a lot, which may actually just be to highlight how women were seen as little more than objects of beauty back in those days, as after seeing this I realise that Goodwin herself certainly can't be inherently superficial.

However, this story also ended up taking a very dark turn, and all in all perhaps ended up being the darkest and most tragic RG book I have read, as after Kitty finally returns to Treetops after 4 years of being exploited and going off the rails with an odious, disreputable, seed man far older than her, you expect her to finally return to her normal, happy, respectable life at Treetops for good and finally find a happy ending with a nice, respectable man who treats her right. However, Goodwin brings out her dark side the furthest she has ever brought it here as she ends up killing off our Kitty as a result of childbirth complications, and after all she has already been through, this truly makes her a tragic soul. As annoying and exasperating as Kitty may have been throughout the story since she became overly besotted and infatuated with Richard, you can't help but feel sad and sorry for her, realising that any chance to redeem and start her life over, returning to that life of respectability, happiness, love and comfort that she once had is now gone. Well she does of course return to that former life when she returns to Treetops, but only briefly. Her death was definitely a real shock, especially after she'd finally returned home to Treetops, where she belonged, after having gone off the rails with that vile cad Richard in London for four years, only for this to be very short-lived. It wasn't that sudden, as we were given signs of course by Kitty herself that she was not expected to survive, but it was still a great shock nevertheless, after having spent the entire book getting to know Kitty, and seeing her on her complicated journey, not to mention that this is the first time that Goodwin has killed off one of her protagonists, at least from my perspective anyway from what I've read.

Kitty was a very complex character indeed-she's kindhearted, innocent and likeable, yet is not so above it all as she proves once she moves to London to live with her birth mother, as she ends up going completely off the rails as she lets the fame of becoming a singer get to her head while also ends up becoming scandalous and promiscuous and only seems to care about herself and Richard as she gets too infatuated with the latter. Not that we can really pin the blame on her for the whole entertaining Richard and his friends, as she was blackmailed of course and therefore was a victim herself, but as she even mentions herself, she did still relish and revel in those advantages of being an older, handsome gentleman's young lady/mistress and being the centre of attention. However, deep down she is a good person, and truly loves and appreciates everything Sunday and Tom have done for her, as she makes clear with her dying last words. Despite how unlikable she did end up becoming when she was in London with Richard, in the end you can't help but still like her, especially as she does look back on her actions and behaviour and does come to regret it, something that resonates greatly.

Also have to point out just one thing, which is that there were a bit too many glaring mistakes and errors with like someone else here has said needed some basic editing, to the point I would probably have fired this editor, with Cissie and George having introduced themselves as Mr and Mrs Branning, and this error came up at least 3 or 4 times too! That and they get Kitty's age wrong of when she first arrived in London, as it had initially been said that she was 17 when she first arrived and then later is said that she was 15 when she first arrived.

I liked as well seeing the famous World War I Christmas Truce included as well, further highlighting important events in History.

Have to say was also a bit disappointed to see there was barely any mention of Daisy from the last book, especially since she had been Tom's late sister and Sunday's late best friend, with her only being mentioned when Tom explains his past affair to his son being due to grieving the loss of his sister. I was even more disappointed however to see that there was no real mention let alone appearance of Mrs Spooner (by the characters themselves at least as she does get mentioned once in the narration), as considering she had become close with Sunday and been her former employer from the previous book and did not live too far (I don't thinkso anyway), you'd have expected her to have been at least acknowledged. Even if she was dead by the beginning, as she was old (and I'm sure she would have been by 1914 which is when most the story takes place), you would have thought this would have at least been mentioned, as Zillah's death took place early on.

Overall a marvellous read, as usual!

[Liz Johnston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy reading with an engaging story.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book two in the days of the week series starts about ten years after the events of book one Mothering Sunday. Sunday now runs the Treetops Foundling Home along with her mother, husband Tom and close friend Cissie and her husband George. One cold December evening Sunday hears a noise outside and finds a tiny bundle wrapped up on the front steps. It's a baby girl and the note with her says her name is Katherine and she is one day old, enclosed is some money for her care and the promise of money each year for her upbringing. The baby is beautiful and Sunday calls her Kitty. Because of her good looks Kitty is the envy of Maggie a rather plain and big boned girl around the same age as her and the story is really about both these girls although Kitty is the main focus. Maggie is soon adopted out to a seemingly good home while Kitty remains at Treetops hoping her real mother will come and get her. Once Kitty reaches her teens a woman named Miss Fox arrives and says that Kitty's mother wants her to come live with her. Soon Kitty is swept up into a whole new world. Her mother Ruby is a well known singer and lives in a grand house surrounded by servants who cater to her every need. Miss Fox who is her mother's maid seems to be the only one who can talk some sense into her though it's next to impossible. Ruby is spoiled, vain and self centred and determined to use her daughter for every penny she can squeeze from her both with her singing and by exploiting her crush on a handsome photographer named Richard. She also insists Kitty call her aunt and that no one know their true relationship. Maggie who once was cruel and bullied Kitty as a child turns up after running away from her family and is hired to be Kitty's personal maid. Maggie has her own dark secrets and doesn't like what she sees is going on in Kitty's new life. As the world teeters on the brink of WWI Kitty's career as a singer take off but other dark forces hover over her and threaten to destroy everything. While I did mostly enjoy this story it wasn't nearly as good as Sunday's story. For the first 80-100 pages it was just a series of events that seemed to happen in order to create drama but did nothing to move the plots story along. The death of a beloved servant, a horrible accident leading to a terrible injury, a long forgotten love affair, all of which could've easily been left out and the story wouldn't have changed at all. But once she goes to live with her mother the story picks up considerably. I loved Maggie, right from the first time I got to know her. She was relatable. A plain Jane longing for love and someone to call her own who grows into a hard working intelligent young woman with a good head on her shoulders and common sense. Kitty however was another story. In the beginning she was too goody goody, practically perfect and used it to her advantage. She also was let's face it stupid with no common sense at all. I get she was in her teens and early twenties during most of the book and I was looking at it through the eyes of an older person, but come on! Falling for Richard and despite the cruel way he treated her time and time again, even seeing him with another woman and never cluing in to anything. I wanted to smack some sense into her. She did have her redeeming qualities of course, taking in Maggie despite their rough childhood together, and showing kindness toward others, but each time she would act like an idiot and I'd want to hate her again. Like thinking Sunday and Tom didn't care about her and never answered her letters. This was a tough one, Kitty was a lot like Angel from the Workhouse series, only at least Kitty had some redeeming qualities. I did like the WWI aspects written into it that it wasn't just written as some background occurrence, but had actual consequences for some of the characters and I liked that she resolved Cissies's story from book one, even though it was kinda sad. In fact the last few pages of this book were quite sad and while Mothering Sunday had a warm fuzzy happy ending, sadly this book did not. I also wished we could find out what happened to Richard, perhaps in a future story? Who knows, but as I said it was an up and down story that was worth slogging through the slow beginning as it did improve and was touchingly bittersweet.

[c m bolton · Rating 5 out of 5]

The little Angel

I have loved all the other stories about Sunday and I'm sure everyone who picks it up will love them too. Thank you Rosie Goodwin for fantastic characters who came to life and made me love them. I've laughed, I've cried but best of all I've smiled.

[Lou · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting story of two foundling girls Kitty and Maggie.the family who takes them in and the families they go to live with. Maggie to an abusive father and Kitty to an abusive mother. In London they meet again for the first time since early childhood and the story finishes with how they find their way home. Great Read!!

[Yvonne Walton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dieselblackcat

Oh what a wonderful story. I cried reading the last the few chapters. So sad. My pillow is so wet. I can’t wait till the new book is out. Thanks Rosie for another wonderful book.

[Rachel Muumbo · Rating 5 out of 5]

The second in the days of the week series is just as good as the first. Some of the characters from the first book return, but this book's main character is Kitty. This story has lots of twists in it and keeps you hooked right to the end. Fantastic!