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Helen Forrester

    Helen Forrester is renowned for her autobiographical novels, which capture her childhood experiences in Liverpool during the Great Depression. Her writing is characterized by raw honesty and a sharp insight into the struggle for survival in harsh conditions. Forrester masterfully depicts the era's atmosphere and the psychology of characters striving to find hope and dignity amidst poverty. Her works resonate with readers for their authenticity and powerful human message.

    A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin
    LIVERPOOL DAISY
    Lime Street at Two
    Twopence to Cross the Mersey
    By the Waters of Liverpool
    Liverpool Miss
    • 2016

      The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.

      By the Waters of Liverpool
    • 2011

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

      Liverpool Miss
    • 2011

      The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester's bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool

      Lime Street at Two
    • 2004

      A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      3.9(385)Add rating

      A powerful new novel, heart-breaking but ultimately uplifting, from the author of the classic Twopence to Cross The Mersey. Life in a Liverpool tenement block during the Great Depression is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly and her poverty-stricken family, as every day renews the threat of homelessness, hunger and disease. Family warmth remains constant however, despite the misery and disquiet of the slum surroundings, and the indomitible neighbourhood puts up a relentless fight for survival. Helen Forrester's poignant novel relays bleakness and hardships, but celebrates also the spirit of unified hope and the restorative values of the close-knit community.

      A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin
    • 2000

      Liverpool, May 1941. The worst week of the Blitz. Helen Forrester produces another moving novel set on Merseyside. schovat popis

      Three Women of Liverpool
    • 1996

      Mourning Doves

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.7(104)Add rating

      After her husband's death, Louise is thrown from a fine Liverpool house with servants to a small cottage near Hoylake. Her daughter, Celia, becomes an unpaid servant. Both women hope to be rescued by Edna, the daughter who married well and went to Brazil, but she arrives home a widow also.

      Mourning Doves
    • 1991

      The Lemon Tree

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(128)Add rating

      A compelling novel of Liverpool and Canada, from the bestselling author of Liverpool Daisy, Three Women of Liverpool and Thursday’s Child.For Helena Al-Khoury, life as an immigrant has been full of loneliness and despair. On the long road that has taken her from her family home in the Lebanon to the bustling port of Liverpool, the slums of Chicago, and finally to the Canadian wilderness, the struggle to overcome heartbreak, loss and cruel hardship has taken a heavy toll. Now, at last, with the constant support of Joe, her devoted lover, she has developed into a strong, independent woman.When unexpected circumstances take her back across the Atlantic to Liverpool, Helena is offered the chance to take over the family business, and to become a success in her own right. Yet with her love far away on another continent, she feels torn apart. Soon the tragedies of the past and the challenges of the future threaten to overwhelm her…

      The Lemon Tree
    • 1988

      Yes, Mama

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.8(183)Add rating

      From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale. A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy... Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey's child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say 'Yes, Mama' and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval, Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that, though blood may be thicker than water, love is the most powerful relationship of all...

      Yes, Mama
    • 1985

      Thursday's Child

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.7(138)Add rating

      Helen Forrester's moving story of an English girl and her love affair with an Indian man. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning to live again after the heartache of the war. Ajit Singh was a charming young Indian student, shortly to return to his homeland and an arranged marriage. When Peggy and Ajit fell in love, each one knew the future would not be easy. But as they began their new life, far from their homes and their families, they found that love could bring two worlds together...

      Thursday's Child