Liverpool Miss
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On Sale:
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31/07/1996
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Formats:
Paperback
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The continuing story of Helen Forrester′s poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.
The Forrester family is slowly winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen′s personal battle is to persuade her parents to allow her to earn her own living, to lead her own life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger brothers and sisters. Her untiring struggles against illness caused by severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years), and above all the selfish demands of her parents, make this story of amazing courage and perseverance both heartbreaking and inspiring.
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Author Extras
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Twopence To Cross The Mersey/ Liverpool Miss
Twopence was the price of the ferry-boat between Liverpool and Birkenhead. A tiny sum but an impassable barrier for the poor of Liverpool -- desperate to escape the city′s grinding poverty. When Helen Forrester′s father went bankrupt in 1930, she and her six siblings...
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By the Water of Liverpool/Lime Street at Two
Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of her teenage years and the devastating effect of the Second World War on her hometown of Liverpool. At seventeen, Helen Forrester′s parents are still as irresponsible as ever, wasting...
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