But first she explained why she set the book in a foundling hospital in Victorian times.
We caught up with Jacqueline at the Foundling Museum in London where she answered your questions.
As I wandered around the museum I couldn't help wondering what on earth it was like to be a foundling.
Coram's Fields was part of an 18th-century foundling hospital, while Tooting Bec Common was reputedly a transit camp for soldiers heading off to the Napoleonic Wars.
There, the foundling, raised by the King and Queen of Corinth, grows up as a spoiled royal whose courage is bravado and whose strength is ignorance.
The Foundling Museum in London is my favourite museum and it's been inspirational for me because I've just written a book about a Victorian foundling child called Hetty Feather.
He lived at the Foundling Hospital, an orphanage on Sixth Avenue, until he was three, when he moved into the Mitchel Houses, in the South Bronx, with his new parents, George and Genevieve Rogers.
The book takes you on a journey with Hetty from her life with a foster family in the countryside and back to the Foundling Hospital where she was left as a baby, in search of her real mother.
The film uses that man-ages-backward notion as a framework on which to hang a completely random string of dramatic incidents, everything from a World War II naval engagement to the finding of a foundling on the back stairs.
So I invented a very fierce and feisty little girl who would fight back against all the rules and be very rude and cheeky to the matron and be absolutely determined she would get out of the foundling hospital one day and find her mother.
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