Book description
The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood
and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.
Helen has managed to achieve a small measure of independence. At
seventeen, she has fought and won two bitter battles with her parents,
the first for the right to educate herself at evening classes, the
second for the right to go out to work. Her parents are still as
financially irresponsible as ever, wasting money while their children
lack blankets, let alone proper beds, but for Helen the future is
brightening as she begins to make friends her own age and to develop
some social life outside the home. At twenty, still never kissed by a
lover, Helen meets Harry, a strong, tall seaman, and falls in love… 'A
fascinating autobiography which has also gained a new topicality… highly
gripping and entertaining'
Birmingham Post
'…should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and
social document'
Observer Born in Cheshire, Helen Forrester, the eldest of seven
children, made her home in Liverpool until emigrating to Canada. She is
the author of four bestselling volumes of autobiography and a number of
equally successful novels.
