That Liverpool Girl by Ruth Hamilton
NOT EVEN THE BOMBS THAT DESTROYED THEIR CITY COULD BREAK THEIR SPIRIT ... Three generations of strong, determined women and the war that threatened to tear them apart. In the backstreets of Liverpool, Eileen Watson lives with her mother, Nellie, daughter Mel and her three tear-away sons. Life isn't great, but they have eachother, and family can get you through anything. Or...can it? Then, on the third day in September 1939, Britain declares war on Germany and their lives change forever. The children have to be evacuated, but daughter Mel refuses to go, and so Eileen says goodbye to het mother and sons, moves away from the street they love and faces a future without most of the people in her precious family. Thus begins a journey for them all. A journey filled with forbidden love, tragedy and the terrifying sounds of a city they love crumbling into craters left by the Luftwaffe. Their lives will never be the same again ...
Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of twenty novels, including Spinning Jenny, Mulligan’s Yard, Dorothy’s War,The Judge’s Daughter, The Reading Room and Mersey View. She has become one of the north-west of England’s most popular writers. She now lives in Liverpool.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330522243 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330522248 |
| Title | That Liverpool Girl |
| Author | Ruth Hamilton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2011-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for RoNA The Epic Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2012 (UK) |
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