Book description
Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love
Â- like every Merseyside schoolgirl Â- with four mop-topped young men,
seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year
The Beatles have the world at their feet, Helen dreams secretly of
reaching university and leaving Liverpool. Her Liverpool. Her world.
For a grammar school girl to even consider a future outside the city
is to break taboos stronger than the Mersey undertow, and as the
prospect of a place at Oxbridge shimmers into view, Helen knows she is
restrained by the very forces of stability she longs to escape. But
when love intervenes Â- with Michael Levison, a locally stationed US
serviceman Â- Helen finds the means to break the chains of the old
life, and her guide through the hidden dangers of the new...
Edwina Currie is a well known broadcaster and author, appearing
regularly on TV and radio and writing for national press and magazines.
Formerly a Conservative MP, she was a Junior Health Minister for two
years
