Product Description

From Liverpool's best-loved author comes a superb novel of loss and grief, love and hope, set on Merseyside in 1920. When her husband dies suddenly, Louise Gilmore and her daughters Edna and Celia are left with nothing but debts. Forced to move from their fine Liverpool house with servants to a run-down cottage in Hoylake, the three women must learn to make their way in an entirely new world. Although they live with fear, uncertainty and even despair, the women find there are also unexpected opportunities in store. This is a heartwarming story of family relationships and a powerful portrait of a nation changed forever by the Great War.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #695655 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Very engrossing until the end -
The book was very well written and totally absorbing until the end where it suddenly goes straight into an epilogue which moves the story on through another generation or two in the space of about 3 pages!. This was too much, too quick, at the end of a very slow paced and wonderfully detailed book. It would have been better to spread it out into a follow-up book (or two!), as it left you wanting more details on the events that took place in those follow-up years!!!