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Helen Forrester

Helen Forrester had a childhood most of us would like to forget. Bought up for the first twelve years of her life in the wealthy middle class of southern England, she was suddenly ejected from her pampered hot-house existence into the bleak realities of Liverpool during the Depression years. In the first two volumes of her autobiography - Twopence to Cross the Mersey and Liverpool Miss, Helen bravely told the terrible story of the degradations her family - once so rich, now so desperately poor - had to face, and with only themselves to blame. This was a story that was frightening to hear - Helen′s uphill struggle to provide her younger brothers...

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Twopence To Cross The Mersey/ Liverpool Miss Twopence To Cross The Mersey/ Liverpool Miss
Twopence was the price of the ferry-boat between Liverpool and...
By the Water of Liverpool/Lime Street at Two By the Water of Liverpool/Lime Street at Two
Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-...
A Cuppa Tea and An Aspirin A Cuppa Tea and An Aspirin
A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting,...