By the Waters of Liverpool

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007369301
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
The third best-selling volume in the powerful story of Helen Forrester’s childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.

Twopence to Cross the Mersey

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007369328
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read.

Liverpool Miss

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000736931X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the 1930s.

Lime Street at Two

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007373856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester’s bestselling autobiography concludes the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life in Liverpool.

The Complete Helen Forrester 4-Book Memoir: Twopence to Cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss, By the Waters of Liverpool, Lime Street at Two

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007550405
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 691

Book Description
The complete four-volume collection of classic memoir recounting a poverty-stricken childhood in 1930s Liverpool that started with Twopence To Cross the Mersey.

Liverpool Daisy

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006169017
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A family woman with a friend dying from lack of medical attention realizes, after being cornered by three men one night, how she can earn the money to help her friend and herself.

A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin

Author: Helen Forrester
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007387385
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
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 heart-warming and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers.

Passage Across the Mersey

Author: Robert Bhatia
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008168873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.

A Kestrel for a Knave

Author: Barry Hines
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014190383X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A KETREL FOR A KNAVE was first published in 1968 and was also madeinto a highly acclaimed film, 'Kes', directed by Ken Loach.

The Mauritian Novel

Author: Julia Waters
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786949490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
This book analyses how the idea – or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary ‘politics of belonging’ in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.