Status Updates From David Copperfield

Finished Books 3 and 4: David's mother and infant half-brother have passed on. David is left in the Mr. Murdstone and his sister Jane, neither have any parenting instincts. They immediately decide that he needs work his way through the world at 8 years of age. He is sent to London to work at Mudstone and Grimsby, which is a liquor distribution business. It's a nightmare existence for a child.