Helen Forrester

Twopence to Cross the Mersey (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Helen Forrester's poignant story of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression has become a bestselling modern classic.

When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced from comfortable middle-class life in southern England to utmost poverty in the Depression-ridden North. The running of the household, in slum surroundings and with little food, and the care of the younger children all fell on twelve-year-old Helen. She writes about her experiences without self-pity but rather with a rich sense of humour which makes her account of these grim days before the Welfare State funny as well as painful.

'Records, with remarkable steadiness and freedom from self-pity, the story of a childhood that... most people would have set down in rage and despair'
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

'Her restraint and humour in describing this start history makes it all the more moving'
DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Vividly recreated with no self-pity'
RICHARD BENNETT, Sunday Telegraph

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007369324
• Artikelnr.: 38067237

Autorenporträt

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.