TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forrester,Helen
TI  - Twopence to cross the Mersey
SN  - 9780008180966 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR6056.O6926 
U1  - 920 FOR 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Forrester, Helen
KW  - Women novelists, English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Novelists, English
KW  - Liverpool (England)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Originally published: London: Cape, 1974
N2  - When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in 1930 she and her six siblings were forced into utmost poverty and slum surroundings in Depression-ridden Liverpool. The running of the household and the care of the younger children all fell on 12-year-old Helen. With very little food or help from her parents, Helen led a life of unrelenting drudgery and hardship. Writing about her experiences later in life, Helen Forrester shed light on an almost forgotten part of life in Britain. Written with good humour and a lack of self-pity, Forrester's memoir of these grim days is as heart-warming as it is shocking
ER  -