Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 1/2/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Our good friend, the charwoman Mrs. Harris, has a neighbor who is abusive toward a child left in his care. She worries about and tries to protect little Henry, the son of an American GI who subsequently divorced the British girl who refused to go to the US with him. Henry's mother eventually remarried and left her son in the care of the heartless Gusset family, then conveniently disappeared. Troubled by the constant beatings and starvation diet the boy is forced to endure, when her American clients move back to New York and ask her to come with them to take care of their household for a few months, Mrs. Harris accepts and smuggles the boy aboard the ship to America, determined to find his father and reunite them. Thus begins another adventure that snowballs into something quite beyond her control. While I did not find this as charming as the first book, it is just as heart-warming and enjoyable, and I intend to find the rest of the series!

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