The Five Shilling Children

This story revolves around the Fitch family and the hardship they endure on a daily basis. They have no money, no food or coal to heat them. Life is harsh. Gerald, the father drinks most of his wages. Minnie, the mother has three sons, a daughter and a new baby to try and find food for as well as he......more

The Five Shilling Children by Lindsey Hutchinson is a nice work of historical fiction. Nine-year-old Polly Fitch and her ten-year-old brother, Adam, are sold for five shillings each to an orphanage by their abusive father, Gerald. They’re distraught, but they have each other, three filling meals a d......more

When you pick up a Lindsey Hutchinson book, you just know you are going to be lost for hours in what will essentially be another good read. There is just something about historical fiction that pulls you in and keeps you there until the end. And THE FIVE SHILLING CHILDREN is no different. Ten year ol......more

What a lovely heart warming story of the Fitch family and their struggle to survive having no money for food or coal.Gerald Fitch drinks what little money they do get and then he sells the two younger children Adam and Polly to Reeds orhanage for five shillings,but life doesn't get any better.I won'......more

The Five Shilling Children by Lindsey Hutchinson takes to Wolverhampton in the heart of the Black Country. Polly and Adam Fitch are sold to Reed’s Orphanage by their father for five shillings each. They miss their mother (not their bully father), but they are thankful for a warm bed to sleep in each......more