The Girls From Mersey View

Author : Lyn Andrews
Publisher : Headline
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472269652

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The Girls From Mersey View by Lyn Andrews Pdf

In her nostalgic and heart-warming saga, Sunday Times bestselling author Lyn Andrews evokes the ups and downs of life in the back streets of 1930s Liverpool 'An outstanding storyteller' Woman's Weekly Liverpool, 1935. Monica and Joan Copperfield are firm friends. Monica dreams of a better life as a hairdresser - though her parents are suspicious of such a glamorous profession. Joan has her eye on a job at Crawford's biscuit factory, with cheap chocolate biscuits as an irresistible perk. When Monica catches the eye of her boss's son, she's flattered. But could he ever be serious about a back-street girl? Meanwhile Glaswegian Jim is keen on Joan - but she's grown up around a bad marriage, and is suspicious of romance. Yet Jim's kindness and sense of humour are hard to resist . . . Shocking secrets, lifelong friendships and the unbreakable spirit of a working-class community facing war are woven irresistibly together in Lyn Andrews' evocative novel. Readers are loving The Girls From Mersey View 'What a delightful story' ***** 'I loved the characters and the setting. This is a story of hope and friendship and I highly recommend' ***** 'What a delight this book was to read ... an inspirational story' ***** 'I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone' *****

Author : Lyn Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472269683

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The Girls from Mersey View by Lyn Andrews Pdf

In her nostalgic and heart-warming new saga, Sunday Times bestselling author Lyn Andrews evokes the ups and downs of life in the back streets of 1930s Liverpool Liverpool, 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when new neighbours move in next door, and she and Joan Copperfield quickly become firm friends. While Monica's father has a good job as a guard on the railway, Joan's family are harder up, with her sailor dad Billy mostly off at sea, and restless when he's home - Mersey View is no substitute for the exotic places he sails to. Though money's tight, the Copperfield women are spirited and independent, and it's her friendship with the more confident Joan that gives Monica the courage to challenge her parents and pursue her dream of becoming a hairdresser. Joan is lucky enough to get a job at Crawford's biscuit factory, where she's even allowed to buy broken biscuits cheaply as a perk. But there are dark secrets lurking. When an abandoned child arrives unexpectedly on the Copperfields' doorstep, her arrival will change everything. As war clouds gather, can the girls make their back street dreams reality, or will the families of Mersey View be torn apart?

Author : Lyn Andrews
Publisher : Headline
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472281241

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Goodbye, Mersey View by Lyn Andrews Pdf

In her nostalgic and heart-warming new saga, Sunday Times bestselling author Lyn Andrews evokes the ups and downs of life in the back streets of 1930s Liverpool Liverpool, World War II. Monica Eustace and Joan McDonald met as next-door-neighbours living in Mersey View in Liverpool. Their friendship is a close as ever, though they're married now, and sharing Monica's grand house on the other side of the city. But war clouds are gathering, casting a shadow over the happy future they dream of with their young husbands . . . Meanwhile, in London, Joan's half-sister Bella is overwhelmed with the glitz and glamour of the city while she's training as a singer - but will she forget her friends back home? As war descends on Merseyside, can the women make their back street dreams reality, or will the close-knit families be torn apart? PRAISE FOR SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LYN ANDREWS: 'An outstanding storyteller' Woman's Weekly 'Gutsy . . . A vivid picture of a hard-up, hard-working community . . . Will keep the pages turning' Daily Express 'A compelling read' Woman's Own 'She has a realism that is almost palpable' Liverpool Echo 'The Catherine Cookson of Liverpool' Northern Echo

Author : Ruth Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330533546

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Mersey View by Ruth Hamilton Pdf

At the age of 45, Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly, since her marriage has been broken for some eighteen years. However, as the mother of twin sons and a daughter, Lucy has felt it her duty to stay as a couple in the family house she was born in near Bolton, giving her children the security she knows they need. Now that her family is grown, content in the knowledge that she loves them, Lucy decides she is free to leave. She secretly purchases a beautiful house overlooking the Mersey, near Liverpool, and there she plans to start afresh. Within hours, she has met some characters: her new neighbour Moira, who is disabled and dying, and sees Lucy as the ideal new companion for her husband, Richard; Shirley Bishop, built like a battleship and a cleaner extraordinaire, towing her several-inches-shorter husband as a handy gardener behind her; and Dr David Vincent, who is grieving for the loss of his young son. It is soon apparent that Lucy need have no anxieties about being lonely. It is these new friends, too, who come to Lucy’s rescue when her husband Alan, falls ill. Always a wastrel and fraudster who has tried to control her, his illness only seems to offer him another opportunity to complicate Lucy's life all over again. Mersey View is a compelling and gritty novel set in Liverpool, and is a wonderful story, rich with warmth and humour, by a much-loved storyteller at the height of her powers.

Author : Katie Flynn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446455852

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The Mersey Girls by Katie Flynn Pdf

FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR KATIE FLYNN: Set in Liverpool in the 1920s, The Mersey Girlsis a heartwarming novel of family, love and triumph against the odds. ____________________________________ 1913 Seventeen-year-old Evie Murphy has chosen to leave behind her native Ireland for the city of Liverpool. She takes her baby daughter Linnet with her, but leaves behind her child’s frail twin, Lucy. A decision that will change their lives for ever. 1924 When tragedy strikes, Linnet is left destitute and alone, disappearing into the unforgiving Liverpool slums. Meanwhile, Lucy is desperate to find her sister but is she willing to leave behind the beautiful Irish countryside where she has grown up. With uncertain times ahead, will the sisters ever be reunited . . . ?

Author : Ruth Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230772816

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The Liverpool Trilogy by Ruth Hamilton Pdf

Three novels of love, loss and family secrets, from Liverpool’s best-loved author. Mersey View: After a long, broken marriage, Lucy Henshaw decides to leave home and start afresh in a beautiful house overlooking the Mersey. With a new life come new friends, but when Lucy’s husband falls ill she realises she may not be as far from the past as she thought, and she may need her new friends more than ever. The Liverpool Girl: At the outbreak of World War Two, Eileen’s daughter Mel refuses to be evacuated. So Eileen and Mel move away from the street and family they love and face an unknown future together. Thus begins a journey of forbidden love, tragedy and a city left crumbling into the craters by the Luftwaffe. Their lives will never be the same again. Lights of Liverpool: Three families in Liverpool; the O’Neils, the Allens and Tess and Don Compton. Each is struggling to keep their families together. But behind the three families, two men are at work. One will do horrific damage; the other will reunite a clan that descends from Ireland, and ancestors thrown ashore from the ships of the Spanish Armada.

Author : Ruth Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447208136

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That Liverpool Girl by Ruth Hamilton Pdf

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 ...

Author : University of Cambridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ5KU

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Local Examinations by University of Cambridge Pdf

Author : Sheila Riley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1804261831

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The Mersey Girls by Sheila Riley Pdf

The latest instalment in Sheila Riley's brilliant Reckoner's Row series Liverpool 1950... When Evie Kilgaren takes over the running of the back office at Skinner and Son's haulage yard, she has no idea she is walking into a hive of blackmail, secrets and lies. Her fellow co-worker and childhood nemesis, Susie Blackthorn, is outraged at being demoted and is hell-bent on securing the affections of local heartthrob Danny Harris. Grace Harris, a singer on the prestigious D'Angelo transatlantic ocean liners, is returning home engaged to be married. But Grace is harbouring her own shocking secrets and something valuable her fiancé very desperately wants back. As we return to the lives and loves of those who live and work in the Mersey Docklands, not everything is as it seems and love and luck are rarely on the same side. Praise for Sheila Riley's Reckoners Row Series 'A thoroughly enjoyable, powerful novel' Lyn Andrews'An enchanting, warm and deeply touching story' Cathy Sharp What readers are saying about The Mersey Girls: 'I totally loved everything about this book' 'It's gripping and engrossing, full of twists and turns.' 'The Mersey Girls by Sheila Riley is a perfectly written story which I read in a day.' 'This is definitely a five star read' 'This is such a feel good book' 'Family saga at its best' 'With never a dull moment, this mixes everything together to make a really interesting, period perfect, read'

Author : Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Parishes
ISBN : OXFORD:555055505

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Book of Reference to the Plan of the Parish of ... by Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Pdf

Author : Ruth Hamilton
Publisher : Pan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447287665

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The Reading Room by Ruth Hamilton Pdf

A stirring and moving family saga set in the north west of England from one of Britain's best loved authors

Author : Mary McGlory,Sylvia Saunders
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781538739983

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The Other Fab Four by Mary McGlory,Sylvia Saunders Pdf

For readers of Sheila Weller’s Girls Like Us comes a fiercely feminist, heartwarming story of friendship and music about The Liverbirds, Britain’s first all-female rock group. The idea for Britain’s first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the “cradle of British pop music.” Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them—and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool—drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to “break the male monopoly of the beat world”—The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom—until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968. Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band’s two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up—Sylvia’s dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie’s beau—The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces—even destiny—that initially brought the four women together.

Author : Alastair Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781443830294

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Living in Liverpool by Alastair Wilcox Pdf

Liverpool was a city whose seemingly boundless opportunities bred wealth for the ambitious few and an often precarious lifestyle for its toiling masses. But how far can we penetrate that lost world of working class life in Liverpool? Is it possible to recreate that bustling, noisy, active city? Fortunately, Liverpool’s working classes were being watched. Recording (often, it must be said, with horror) their lifestyles, were a mixture of social commentators. Chief amongst these was local journalist, Hugh Shimmin, and a fresh selection of his best writings is reprinted here. But the observations of others, such as the nationally famous George Sims and the locally renowned Dr Duncan, are to be found within this selection as well. The work of less well-known, but equally remarkable, writers and statisticians who recorded the habits, health, housing, wages and religious affiliations of Liverpool is also included in this collection of over forty key sources. The sources have been given an introduction to put them into a context which will enable their use for general interest and educational purposes by social, local and family historians.

Author : Directories. - Warrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000568498

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Worrall's Directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens, Etc by Directories. - Warrington Pdf

Author : Spencer Leigh.
Publisher : McNidder and Grace Limited
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857160980

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The Cavern Club by Spencer Leigh. Pdf

This is the story of the Cavern Club - the most famous club in the world. The Cavern saw the birth of the Beatles and Merseybeat, and more. Respected author, music journalist and Merseybeat historian Spencer Leigh - with a little help from Sir Paul McCartney, who provides the Foreword - tells the Cavern's history by talking to the owners, hundreds of musicians who played at the club, the backroom staff and fans. Spencer paints a vivid picture of the Cavern, from its days as a jazz club, through the Beatles years to the present