Book description
At the age of 45, Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to
go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly, since her marriage has
been broken for some eighteen years. However, as the mother of twin sons
and a daughter, Lucy has felt it her duty to stay as a couple in the
family house she was born in near Bolton, giving her children the
security she knows they need.
Now that her family is grown, content in the knowledge that she loves
them, Lucy decides she is free to leave. She secretly purchases a
beautiful house overlooking the Mersey, near Liverpool, and there she
plans to start afresh. Within hours, she has met some characters: her
new neighbour Moira, who is disabled and dying, and sees Lucy as the
ideal new companion for her husband, Richard; Shirley Bishop, built like
a battleship and a cleaner extraordinaire, towing her
several-inches-shorter husband as a handy gardener behind her; and Dr
David Vincent, who is grieving for the loss of his young son. It is soon
apparent that Lucy need have no anxieties about being lonely.
It is these new friends, too, who come to Lucy’s rescue when her
husband Alan, falls ill. Always a wastrel and fraudster who has tried to
control her, his illness only seems to offer him another opportunity to
complicate Lucy's life all over again.
Mersey View
is a compelling and gritty novel set in Liverpool, and is a wonderful
story, rich with warmth and humour, by a much-loved storyteller at the
height of her powers. Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of
twenty novels, including Spinning Jenny
, Mulligan’s Yard
, Dorothy’s War
and The Judge’s Daughter
. She has become one of the north-west of England’s most popuar writers.
Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her
novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in
Liverpool.
