"She wanted a doll that would fit in her buggy, just like all her friends’ dolls did. Nobody gave her one. ‘If I don’t get one soon I will be too old,’ she thought.

“I want a doll for Christmas,” she told her mum. She was sure she would get one.

The book also contains the historical background to the name "Sarah", here are some of those facts:

The name Sarah, also spelled Sara, is derived from the Hebrew, meaning princess.

Sarah is one of the most developed female characters in the Bible. Unable to bear a child, Sarah accepts the ‘custom’ whereby the husband married a slave girl, although the slave’s children count as hers.

The name is linked to the Irish Saraid (meaning ‘best’or ‘noble’).