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 Depression, 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 Depression, continues to move readers. After the death of her mother, Daisy Gallagher supports her struggling family while her best friend Nellie O’Brian is dying for lack of medical attention. Desperate for money, Daisy turns to the darkened streets of pre-war Liverpool, filled with drunken sailors, and makes a terrible sacrifice. Through strength and suffering, she earns enough to support those who need her help. Daisy’s friends and family know nothing of her new occupation. But, as her husband returns from the sea, can it remain hidden much longer? 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 • One of the very biggest selling authors on the HarperCollins list – Twopence to Cross the Mersey over 600,000 copies sold to date, average sales of her other titles 300,000+ • The queen of Liverpool sagas • Strong, human-interest story about survival in appalling conditions Competition: the;a;three sisters of victory walk;land is bright;passage across the mersey;mary kate;liverpool;annie;legacy;mersey orphan;girls of victory street;wartime at woolworths. annie groves;maggie sullivan;nadine dorries;nancy revel;penny thorpe;elaine; everest;roberts;sheila riley;maureen lee;pam howes
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