My Life as a Blue Coat Girl gives a charming insight into the life of a young girl from a working-class family in Coventry, prior to the Second World War. Ivy"s father dies when she is only two years old, leaving her mother to cope with four girls all under the age of seven. When Ivy is nine, she and her sisters are separated and sent away to different care homes and Ivy"s life as a Blue Coat girl...