The Children of the New Forest

The novel is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during the war and hide from their Roundhead oppressors in the shelter of the New Forest where they learn to live off the land. The story begins in 1647 when King Charles I has been defeated in the Civil War and has fled from London towards the New forest. The four children Edward HumphreyAlice and Edith of Colonel Beverley a Cavalier officer killed at the battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames. On the contrary they take shelter in the New Forest.