MASSIVE SAVINGS JUST FOR YOU!
VIEW DEALS

Passage Across The Mersey



Passage Across The Mersey
Helen Forrester's memoirs, "Twopence to Cross the Mersey," tell the story of her family's struggles during the Great Depression. Her son, Robert, tells the unexpected life that Helen went on to live, including the remarkable love story with a young man from a different background and the lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness. more details
Key Features:
  • The memoirs of Helen Forrester, detailing her family's struggles during the Great Depression
  • The surprising life of Helen Forrester, including the love story with a young man from a different background and the lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness
  • An informative and inspiring read for anyone looking to understand the challenges faced by those during the Great Depression


R228.00 from Loot.co.za

price history Price history

BP = Best Price   HP = Highest Price

Current Price: R228.00

loading...

tagged products icon   Similarly Tagged Products

Features
Author robert bhatia
Format paperback
ISBN 9780008168889
Manufacturer Unbranded
Model Number 9780008168889
Pages 384
Description
Helen Forrester's memoirs, "Twopence to Cross the Mersey," tell the story of her family's struggles during the Great Depression. Her son, Robert, tells the unexpected life that Helen went on to live, including the remarkable love story with a young man from a different background and the lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness.

The remarkable story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned tragedy to triumph. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class existence into wretched poverty. Later in life, Helen wrote a ground-breaking series of memoirs, starting with Twopence to Cross the Mersey, which told the harrowing account of her family's struggles in Depression-era Liverpool. It was a story filled with tragedy and small triumphs but many readers wondered what happened to Helen when she grew up; what became of the fragile young girl who had so much responsibility heaped on her shoulders? Now for the first time, her son Robert recounts the unexpected life that Helen went on to live; of the remarkable love story with a young man from a background a million miles away from everything a Lancashire Lass like Helen would have known and of the astonishing lengths she went to in order to achieve happiness. Full of new revelations and fascinating detail never before revealed, Passage Across the Mersey is a story of an extraordinary woman, and of the journey that took her thousands of miles from the place she called home...

Top offers

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.