Publisher's Synopsis
Orphaned, Lizzie lives with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two cousins in Liverpool. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes when she can. She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues the pair of them from drowning. As Lizzie's uncle grows more violent, she is forced to flee. Her first instinct is to make for the canal, but finding Ciem is not so easy...
