num_pages: 183
description: A spirited sixth-former with an unlikely penchant for Keats and Browning, struggles against a brutish home life in the Fens, with a bullying father, down-trodden mother, and nasty little brother. Discovering she was in fact adopted, Hetty gratefully runs away in search of her real parents. She finds shelter in a Birmingham boarding house, where the land-lady, eccentric lodges, race riots and urban living expand her horizons.
language: English
title: What Hetty Did: Life and Letters
titlecomplete: What Hetty Did: Life and Letters
genres: Roman, Fiction
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Foulsham