The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Little Nell Trent, a young girl lives with her grandfather in his London curiosity shop. The grandfather a compulsive gambler, borrows heavily from the cruel and malicious moneylender Daniel Quilp.

After gambling away their home, Nell and her grandfather flee London to escape Quilp, and wander the English countryside, enduring extreme poverty and hardship.

Meanwhile, Nell’s friends, and her long-lost granduncle, desperately search for them, and eventually track them down, but discover, they have arrived too late…