Britfield & The Lost Crown

It’s no secret that a good book can take you to a different place and/or time, we’ve been reviewing such a book as we’ve read Britfield & the Lost Crown. We received the softcover edition of this book for this review.Britfield & the Lost Crown,written by C.R. Stewart, is actually the first in a series of books, following the travels and adventures of orphans, Tom and Sarah

Britfield and the Lost Crown Storyline

Life for Tom, Sarah and the other orphans was hard and unforgiving at Weatherly. Weatherly was located in Aysgarth, Yorkshire, in Northern England. Despite being the 21st century, the orphange looked like something out of the medeival time period. The orphanage was run by the greedy Grievouses who received government money to help care for the orphans. However, they kept all the money for themselves and treated the orphans harshly even forcing them to work long hours.

The orphans would occassionally sneak to the roof top at night as a way to experience a little bit of the beauty of the outside world and to be able to talk quiet. One night when friends, Tom and Sarah snuck to the roof to talk, the awful man, Speckle, discovered they were there and captured Sarah. Her punishment was 30 days of solitary confinement in one of the attics above Weatherly.

Tom and some of the other orphans decided that they must get Sarah out of solitary. 30 days was too long for her to be able to stand. With the help of his friend, Patrick, and other orphans a plan was devised that Tom could rescue Sarah and the two of them could escape Weatherly.

They had no idea that escaping the walls of Weatherly would be the easiest part of the journey. The Grievouses couldn’t risk those two orphans escaping and telling about the horrors at Weatherly. So they hired the famous Detective Gowerstone to hunt down the two orphans and return them to the orphanage.

As Tom and Sarah fled, their paths crossed that of Professor Hainsworth. The professor chose to help Tom and Sarah once they told of their story. The three decided that their best course of action was to try to get to London. It would be much easier to hide in London.

Together with their unlikely partner, Professor Hainsworth, Tom and Sarah make their way across the British countryside in the stolen hot air balloon. As the go, they realize that they are not just being chased by Detective Gowerstone and his men. They learned the hardway that even though Professor Hainsworth had considered the head butler at Windsor Castle to be a friend, he was an adversary to the trio. In fact, his man, Coldwell, was the most dangerous of all as he was trying to kill Tom.

We have thoroughly enjoyed reading Britfield & the Lost Crown! Our only complaint is that we have to wait for the next book in this adventure series!

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Blessings,

Jennifer