A Liverpool Lass
By (Author) Katie Flynn
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
15th June 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
First World War fiction
Historical romance
823.914
Paperback
432
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 27mm
229g
A novel of family, love and betrayal from the Sunday Times bestselling saga author Liverpool. December, 1905. In the breaking dawn of a raw windswept morning, a new-born baby girl is left at the door of an orphange. So helpless and appealing is the foundling that young Nellie McDowell, the maid-of-all-work, decides there and then to adopt her as her own sister. In the years that follow, Nellie and Lilac become even closer than sisters in their shared struggle to survive the grinding poverty of their lot. But they cannot lean on each other for ever. Nellie delights in the promise of love - and tastes the bitterness of betrayal - just as the long finger of war stretches out to divide the girls and rob Liverpool of a whole generation of its young men ... Sure to please fans and newcomers alike, this is classic Katie Flynn saga writing at its best.
She's a challenge to Josephine Cox * Bookseller *
Few writers have a fan base as wide and as varied as Katie Flynn and devotees won't be disappointed * Scottish Daily Record *
Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the north-west. A compulsive writer, she started with short stories and articles and many of her early stories were broadcast on Radio Merseyside. She decided to write her Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members about life in the city in the early years of the twentieth century. She also writes as Judith Saxton. For the past few years, she has had to cope with ME but has continued to write.