Passage across the Mersey
Bhatia, Robert2017
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When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the first half of the 20th century, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class existence into wretched poverty. Later in life, Helen wrote a ground-breaking series of memoirs, starting with 'Twopence to Cross the Mersey,' which told the harrowing account of her family's struggles in Depression-era Liverpool. It was a story filled with tragedy and small triumphs but many readers wondered what happened to Helen when she grew up; what became of the fragile young girl who had so much responsibility heaped on her shoulders? Now for the first time, her son Robert recounts the unexpected life that Helen went on to live; of the remarkable love story with a young man from a background a million miles away from everything a Lancashire Lass like Helen would have known and of the astonishing lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness.
Main title:
Passage across the Mersey / Robert Bhatia.
Author:
Bhatia, Robert, author
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017.
Collation:
370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780008168865 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.914920.FORRB FOR920 BHA920.920821.914
LC class:
PR6056.O6926
Local class:
920.1FOR823.914920.FORB.FORB/FOR
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1815647