Love this series, it’s an easy read and enjoyed reading about what happened with BJ and Alice. BJ is finally finishing his sentence in Australia and is ready to board the boat back home to England. Meanwhile Alice’s bakery business has grown and she’s batching out. A lovely feel good read about romance, troubles and success. A 5 star read. Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for a copy.

I read this as a stand-alone not having read the first 2 books in the Pick Pocket series. A wonderful cast of characters that kept my interest in the book from start to finish. A real page turner for me.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in return for an honest review.

Pick up this novel and you will find it hard to put it down again, and when you have read it, you will find it easy to believe that you have actually been there experiencing the story yourself.

Oh my goodness, what a lovely book! This is the third installment in the series, and I have enjoyed each book individually. While it could stand alone, you will gain a deeper appreciation by reading the first two: "Pickpocket Orphans" and "The Pickpockets’ Plight."

Set in the Black Country town of Wednesbury, we follow the lives of Bertram Jordan, also known as BJ, and Alice Truelove as they navigate their day-to-day struggles to survive. This book kept me gripped until the very end. It has everything you could ask for in a truly great saga.

Was waiting for this 2nd book after having enjoyed the 1st on in the series. Lots of loose ends to be tied up and the author did but introduced some new characters which will, no doubt lead to a 3rd book! Love this series, easy to read, quick moving and very enjoyable. Many thanx to NetGalley, the author and the publishers for allowing me to read and review this book

This was a great historical fiction book! The setting was really great and I loved the story. Would highly recommend this book.

This book kept me enthralled from start to end. I loved the two main characters but each one had many friends and colleagues. I liked how the story was in Australia 6 and the UK. . The two stories ran alongside each other. There was happiness and like true life sadness. I hope many people read this book and enjoy it like l did. Thank you

this is part of a series but can be read as a standalone. BJ and alice are friends who learned how to survive on the streets. BJ is about to be released from jail. will he reconnect with Alice?

Great story. Well written
Love the characters the author seemed to have brought them to life.... After reading this the characters seemed like old friend s

This is a great story following the main characters of Alice and BJ.

BJ and friends in Australia working on a Cattle Ranch with also gold mining, will BJ and his friends come back to the Uk when they have the opportunity?.

And Alice running her many bakeries and cafe with her friends and employees.

This is part of a series, but I have read this as a stand alone. And thoroughly enjoyed this story.

Beautifully written! I enjoyed reading this book from the likeable characters. I was hooked the entire time and what a page turner! Hope we get a sequel!

Part of a series featuring BJ and Alice. Heartwarming and at times heart breaking we follow their lives and fortunes Some great characters. An excellent read.

This has been a fantastic series, although I am not sure if this is the end of the series but if it is it was tied up nicely. The return of BJ was just such a lovely part of the book. I like how this is told from both BJ and Alice but also includes the friends around them who have come into their lives since they were separated from each other. Lindsey creates lovely heart warming characters, with a wee baddie thrown into the mix, the story creates such an escapism and I always look forward to another book by her.

For me, this was an absolute page-turner. Beautifully written with warm, likeable characters. I wish there was another book to follow on... Maybe what happened to Philip Sanders and part two of life in Australia for John and Kit. It was just too good to finish

The 3rd book to the Alice and Bertram Jordan (BJ) story.
Alice is still running her very successful bakeries whilst waiting on BJ's return from Australia. All 3 of these books make a reader think about what it was like back before phones, social media, planes, the correspondence between Alice & BJ took months as did any travel. Overall a heart warming addition. Thank you for the advanced copy and would love to read more.

Firstly thank you Netgalley for this Arc

Another brilliant book in this series family saga at its best

Third in the series and they just keep getting better

Alice Green and Bertham Jordan (BJ) story.
Can she finally get her happy ending or does fate have other plans.
In the village of Wednesbury England the black country and Alice is doing well in her bakery business and yearns for her friend BJ as he is waiting for the certificate of freedom to leave Australia and come home, it's been a long seven years, and both are adults now.
Will love and friendship become much more for this couple their days of pickpocket are behind them both now.
After enjoying the first two in this wonderful series I just needed to get stuck into the third book and I certainly wasn't disappointed.
We meet families with troubles and friends for life as the characters all pull together.
An enchanted stories to be enjoyed from this unique author.
I loved it.

Absolutely loved this, the 3rd in the series. I've loved every second of Alice and BJs rags to riches story, real feel good page turner's. Fantastic characters that will stay with me for a while. Would love to read more about them.

This heart-warming story starts in 1867 in Australia, at a cattle ranch for prisoners shipped there from England.
The ranch manager was a prisoner named Bertram Jordan (BJ). He had been arrested as a young boy for pickpocketing and was serving his sentence there.
Thousands of miles away is a young woman in England named Alice, whom BJ had taught as a youngster how to pickpocket and has not seen in many years yet still loves dearly.
Upon release, BJ and his friends return to England to start their lives anew.
Lindsey Hutchinson has written this compassionate love story about the Australian prisoners and their lives there, as well as the lives they were able to make a reality when they returned home to find the women they loved.
It is truly a love story for the ages, and I thoroughly enjoyed The Pick-Pocket’s Return.
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What a finale to this series! It’s been a joy reading about how B.J and Alice first got to know one another, learning to trust and then being torn apart. In this the 3rd in series the question uppermost is will they find their way back? After each of them has built a life and career, are they willing to make changes, share their life with another, so many unanswered questions. When they parted they were still young children, now they are adults.
As I read about BJ I found myself willing him to stay on the ranch with father figure Mac, while at the same time wishing for Alice to find happiness as she was such a kind caring person who had been taken into the bosom of the Wilkins family.
It’s such a wonderful series, the only disappointment was that it ended. I found myself delaying getting to the end while at the same time desperate to find out what happened.

I loved that you could just pick the book up and be instantly in the story, as it just came flooding back. There are some great characters, Colin is funny, John my favourite, my least favourite Philip Sanders.
I did feel for Joan. Now all I have to do is wait patiently (or not) for the author’s next book.