- Title:
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Twopence to Cross the Mersey (MP3)
- Series:
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The Complete Helen Forrester Memoirs #1
- Written by:
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Helen Forrester
- Read by:
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Liane-Rose Bunce
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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5 hours 59 minutes
- MP3 size:
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267 MB
- Published:
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November 01 2020
- Available Date:
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November 01 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867501671
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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This major bestselling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting audiobooks you will ever hear.
When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930, she and her six siblings were forced into utmost poverty and slum surroundings in Depression-ridden Liverpool. The running of the household and the care of the younger children all fell on 12-year-old Helen.
With very little food or help from her feckless parents, Helen led a life of unrelenting drudgery and hardship. Writing about her experiences later in life, Helen Forrester shed light on an almost forgotten part of life in Britain. Written with good humour and a lack of self-pity, Forrester's memoir of these grim days is as heart-warming as it is shocking.
‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty.'
Sunday Telegraph
'Should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and social document.'
The Observer