Helen Forrester in general

I was recently given the first three books, 'Twopence to cross the mersey', 'Liverpool Miss', and 'By the waters of Liverpool' a series about the life and Times of Helen Forrester after she moved to Liverpool in the 1930's because her father had been made bankrupt. Her tale is about the inability of her parents to cope with their sudden loss of status and money. The author describes how she endures almost ten years of unmitigating social isolation, hopelessness, and despair , due to her parents apalling behaviour and utter fecklessness, and how somehow, along the way, they manage to survive and move on to a better life. The fact that they all ...  Read the complete review

Do you believe in reincarnation? I'm beginning to believe in it myself, I'm becoming determined that I was a guttersnipe in the North of England, or down a pit! This has to be an explanation for my fascination with novels primarily based in Liverpool, or around the Newcastle area! This the first Forrester book entitled 'Two Pence to Cross the Mersey' , I originally picked up the second in the series, picked up in a charity shop for the princely price of 20p, and then last week I came across the first. Helen Forrester was brought up in a comfortable world of private schools, servants and occasional forays into the dining room to sit with ...  Read the complete review

This book is the first in a series of four. They are autobiographies of Helen Forrester who writes about her early life in Liverpool during the depression of the fourties and gradually after the war. Helen describes how her father brought the family to Liverpool after falling into debt from their comfortable upper class lifestyle to the dregs of Liverpool with nothing but the clothes they stood in. The early years describe so much poverty and hardship but with no self pity at all. These books can not be missed I reckon I have easy read them 9/10 times each and they never fail to put a lump in my throat. This woman is an inspiration to thers. Twopence to ...  Read the complete review