LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY

A LITTLE PRINCESS

Rich and popular Sara turns into an outcast and orphan overnight but love and happiness are just around the corner.

A LITTLE PRINCESS: A BBC RADIO FULL-CAST DRAMATISATION

Brought from India to chilly, fog-bound London, Sara Crewe is enrolled as a pupil at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. Her doting father, Captain Crewe, has provided her with fine clothes and luxuries fit for a princess, and she attracts envious attention. But Sara soon wins friends with her kindness, taking the school's misfits under her wing, and telling them wonderful stories to cheer them up. Yet despite her best efforts, her spiteful classmate Lavinia and mean headmistress Miss Minchin remain determined to dislike her. Then one day, Sara receives some terrible news. Her father has died, and his fortune is lost. Suddenly penniless, Sara is stripped of all her possessions and forced to become a servant. Banished to the attic with only her dreams to sustain her, will her courage, warm heart and imagination see her through?

THE SECRET GARDEN

Mary Lennox is sent from India to stay with her uncle in Yorkshire after the death of her parents in a cholera outbreak. Selfish and spoilt, she tries the patience of all around her, but when she discovers a locked garden and begins to tend it with the help of a local boy and her invalid cousin, she becomes a different person.

THE SHUTTLE

When he no longer has enough money to keep up his English estate, Stornham Court, Sir Nigel Anstruthers comes to New York in search of an heiress. He finds and marries the pretty and cosseted Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American millionaire. But on their return to England, Nigel and his mother isolate Rosalie from her family. Many years later, Rosalie's now-grown up sister Bettina, arrives at Stornham Court to investigate why she has not heard from her sister for over a decade. First published in 1907, The Shuttle is one of Burnett's longer and more complex books.