Liverpool Miss

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Liverpool Miss

By: Helen Forrester

Narrated by: Liane-Rose Bunce

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The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.

The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But 14-year-old Helen's personal battle is to persuade her parents to allow her to earn her own living, to lead her own life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for her six younger brothers and sisters. Her untiring struggles against illness caused by severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years) and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents make this a story of amazing courage and perseverance.

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"Records of hardship during the Thirties or earlier are not rare; but this has features that make it stand apart." ( Observer
"The story of a young girl's courage and perseverance against adversity...warm-hearted and excellent." ( Manchester Evening News)

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Having read Helen Forrester's autobiographies a number of times I was very pleased to find them on audible. They were read very well, with spirit and I have continued to listen to the series. I am however, a little confused as to the choice of a liverpuddlian accent for Helen (and Alan) for that matter as the books are quiet clear that their "cultured" Oxford accents set them apart from those around them when their father chose to take them to the city of his childhood. Aside from this a most enjoyable listening experience.