![]() ![]() I have already ordered the sequel 'Liverpool Miss'. She has a fierce spirit and an intelligence that is apart despite her young age. ![]() ![]() Helen tells her story with dry wit and sarcasm, and I really think this helps her to make sense of what is going on. Helen is not allowed to go to school, but instead has to look after her siblings who are too young to, and her mother who has recently had an operation cannot do anything for herself and lies about all day on the mouldy bed, expecting Helen to feed and bathe her children. Although they can sometimes go days without food, soap or general basic products needed to keep them alive. As a result, all they can manage to find is a dirty, cold room in a boarding house which they make their home. Here, in the first volume of her autobiography she and her various siblings are left homeless after their father loses his job in the recession. Helen Forrester has a gripping and wonderful way of entrancing the reader. but I decided on my latest trip to the charity shop this weekend that it was such a short book that I might as well give it a go. I think I wrongly assumed that Forrester's books were sweeping romantic war sagas which is certainly not my thing. For some reason I keep seeing this book in charity shops and have never been tempted to pick it up. ![]()
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