The Bridgeburn Days by Lucy Sinclair is a memoir of her childhood and adolescence spent in a children’s home in the North of England during the 1920s and 1930s. The story follows Kitty Barrowell, whose deep sense of being different shapes her experiences—from life in Cottage Number Six, where her sensitivity, stubbornness, and strong sense of justice set her apart from the other girls, to the village school, and later, as she enters adult life and takes up work “in service.”