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 Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers.

Life in a Liverpool tenement block is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly, who works hard every day to protect her family from hunger and disease.

When rumours of war reach the neighbourhood in 1938, it becomes clear that life will soon be changed forever. As tough as it is, this is the life that Martha knows and loves — she’ll fight not to lose it, but will she succeed?

Despite their troubles, the community is full of warmth and support from friends and neighbours. Through hardships and small triumphs, they’ll strive to survive together.

©2022 Helen Forrester (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Tear-jerking War

Critic reviews

‘Records of hardship during the Thirties or earlier are not rare; but this has features that make it stand apart’
Observer

‘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’
Observer
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I loved this gripping book so much, I just didn’t want it to end. WONDERFUL.
Brilliant narrator.

The excellent Helen Forester never fails.

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fab book narrated extemky well . funny and sad ... horrific and shocking . loved it..

excellent

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