Sam Pargeter & his younger brother & sister have always been poor. But in their tiny house in the country with Ma & Pa they were one big happy family. Until Pa goes off to America to seek their fortune & Ma dies. Then the Pargeter children find themselves whisked off to live with a strange aunt & uncle & are put to work
- just like Oliver Twist in their favourite book. But this is only the start of the twists & turns their lives will take. Sam Eliza & Alfie make their way all over London & then beyond in search of their only remaining member of family: a rich grandfather they have never known...