After a long train ride Hetty arrives at the southern coast and checks into an inn as 'Emerald Star'. The story of Hetty Feather’s life continues with this latest absorbing novel about the feisty young heroine. He has won numerous awards for his picture books, including the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the 2001 Children's Book Award.

Hetty gets to play the roles of Alice in Alice in Wonderland at the Calvacade music Hall and she plays young Davy in David Copperfield.But the Cavalcade proves a dangerous place, and Hetty must fight to protect her darling Diamond, who longs for a normal childhood. The people the girls meet, the friends they make, the dangers they encounter, and the glamorous music hall entertainers they accompany, all make fascinating reading.

Anyway I love this series so much and now I don't want to read any other books as I just want more books about Hetty. Hetty takes Diamond to visit Bignor and Flora, who's got a new friend in the show, Lucy Locket, the littlest woman in the world. The relationship between Hetty and Diamond is so touching and you just know they will be together forever as sisters. His wedding was kinda swept under the rug and I would of loved to of seen more interaction between him and Hetty.I just love this entire series, I've read plenty of books, but this is by far one of my favourite series. Hetty has to say goodbye to the Cavalcade music hall and all its artistes including her dear friend Bertie. She was an interesting study on two varieties of people I seem to delight in reading about as I find them most fascinating: on the one hand, the child performer, more or less forced into performing to varying extents, who reverts back to acting like a much younger child the second she can afford to, and ends up a strange mix of baby and mini-adult, never too sure which she is; on the other hand, and perhaps an extension of the first, the child who has had to grow up much too fast due to hardships much to early in life and, as a result, ends up a mix of traumatised cynic and innocent idealist, somehow. And don't even get me started on the little (and not so little) things there are to love about him: literally a tap dancer; wonderful with younger children (I have to admire the way he never ever patronises dear Diamond, though it would have been silly of him to do so seeing as he's not that much older and very nearly still a child himself); takes snide comments about himself like a champ but will not keep still the second they're directed at his girls; literally knows two trades, a showbiz one and a practical one; last but not least, we stan a short king in this house, if I may use the vernacular.