Passage Across the Mersey
On Sale: 10/19/2017
Passage Across the Mersey
On Sale: 10/19/2017
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About the Book
The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph.
When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in the 1930’s, 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. Full of new revelations and fascinating detail never before revealed, Passage Across the Mersey is a story of an extraordinary woman, and of the journey that took her thousands of miles from the place she called home…
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Product Details
- ISBN: 9780008168889
- ISBN 10: 0008168881
- Imprint: HarperCollins
- On Sale: 10/19/2017
- Pages: 384
- List Price:17.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- BISAC2 : HISTORY / Social History
- BISAC3 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BISAC4 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage