This is a story of three children who live in a respectable suburban villa with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants, until one day great disgrace and poverty befalls them, and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line. Mother writes stories to earn what little they live on and they get used to being poor. Sometimes they argue and have crises, as one does, but in time they make many new friends, and amusing adventures aplenty happen near the railway and the canal. A beautiful hardback edition of this classic.