Book description
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
In 1940 Helen, now twenty, reeling from the news that her fiance Harry
has been killed on an Atlantic convoy, is working long hours at a
welfare centre in Bootle, five miles from home. Her wages are pitifully
low and her mother claims the whole of them for housekeeping. Then,
early in 1941, she gets a new job and begins to enjoy herself a little.
But in May the bombing starts again and another move brings more trouble
to Helen, trouble which will be faced, as ever, with courage and
determination. 'Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a
background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and
unsettling honesty'
Sunday Telegraph
'What makes this writer's self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute
recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject'
The Good Book Guide 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.
