Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Blitz, continues to move readers. Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Blitz, continues to move readers. Three brave women, their lives closely entwined, deal with the destruction brought on by the Blitz in the Second World War. Whilst Gwen attempts to keep up with the constant demands of family life amidst the horrors of war, her sister-in-law Emmie is consumed by fear for the safety of her fiancé. Meanwhile next-door, Ellen’s house is destroyed by bombs, leaving her family homeless with the threat of poverty looming. Faced with devastating challenges, can ordinary people fight to carry on with life in a city torn apart by war? Praise for Liverpool Miss: ‘Records of hardship during the Thirties or earlier are not rare; but this has features that make it stand apart’Observer ‘The story of a young girl’s courage and perseverance against adversity… warm-hearted and excellent’Manchester Evening News Helen Forrester was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, the eldest of seven children. For many years, until she married, her home was Liverpool, a city that features prominently in her work. For many decades, she made her home with her husband and son in Alberta, Canada. Helen died in 2011 aged 92. • Major new jacket reissue programme • The undisputed queen of Liverpool sagas • Helen Forrester’s new novel will be publishing in hardback in autumn 1999 • One of the very biggest selling authors on the HarperCollins list – Twopence to Cross the Mersey has over 600,000 copies sold to date, average sales of her other titles is 300,000+ Competition: the;a;to give and to take;liverpool;annie;mersey;mothers;orphan;girls of victory street;one of the family;wartime at woolworths;poppy girls. annie groves;maggie sullivan;nadine dorries;nancy revel;penny thorpe;elaine;everest;roberts;june francis;pam howes;lynn johnson;masie thomas;margaret dickinson
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