Ada was born with a club foot and has been a virtual prisoner in her mam’s 3rd floor London flat for nine years.  Her younger brother Jamie gets to go to school and roam the neighborhood.  When children are sent from town to live in the country during the beginning of WWII, Mam is going to send Jamie but not Ada.  Ada leaves with Jamie but when arriving at the rural community, they are the last chosen to live with other families.  Miss Susan reluctantly takes them in, thus beginning a tentative new life of trust, love, and acceptance.  Ada is uneducated but extremely attentive.  She is both drawn to and repelled from their new life with Miss Susan.  She does not understand often and misreads cues.  Gradually she comes to trust Miss Susan’s friendship and love.  Then her abusive Mam reappears and threatens Ada’s hard-won security.  She yanks Ada and Jamie back to London.  One aches for Ada as she struggles with her own insecurities and quest for learning, her determined will to survive, and to be accepted for herself.  Many, including Ada’s Mam, have the preconceived opinion that a physical disability is accompanied with a mental defect.  As Ada eventually states, “My club foot is a long way from my head!”  This is a well told story from Ada’s voice and the authentic settings, to her courage and quest for self-respect.