ELEVEN year old Emily Brown was so inspired with a book she had just read that she felt compelled to write her own sequel reports ANDY SHERWILL.

The pupil of Our Lady and St Michael School became addicted to Jacqueline Wilson's book Hetty Feather and set about composing her own story as a follow up to the author's best selling book

Dame Jacqueline Wilson is known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature and is perhaps best-known for her series of novels featuring the character Tracy Beaker.

Emily decided to move the timeline on from of the original book on by a year and she explained that Hetty Feather had been just a baby in Victorian times when her mother left her at the Foundling Hospital, which cares for abandoned children.

She said: "Hetty spends years in the hospital and she eventually finds out who her mother is, a cook in the same hospital and I decided to take up Jacqueline Wilson's story by taking it a step further."

In her sequel, Emily plots for Hetty and her newly found mother to escape from the hospital.

"We crept out of the dormitory at midnight, through the corridors, down the stairs and finally out of the hospital," her story reads.

"I was free, we were together. I wanted to jump and shout but I knew I mustn't because I might wake someone up."

Emily's story evolves through an adventure on a train journey when the pair eventually end up in Sussex. Hetty's mother finds a job as house mistress at a private girls school and as part of the job she is given a house to live in that enables the mother and daughter the opportunity to begin life together as a family.

Emily took the opportunity of presenting a copy of her sequel to the author when Jacqueline Wilson was giving a presentation at the Hay Festival.

And last week the author sent a hand written reply to Emily at her home in Ysbtty Fields and said that it was a lovely story about Hetty adding: "I think it's brilliant. Look out for my book Sapphire Battersea this autumn - then you will find out what I've said happens next."