Liverpool Lou

ISBN: 9780552137188
Author: Lyn Andrews
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Set in Liverpool in the 1930s, this is the new saga from the author of "The Sister O'Donnell". Aunt Babsey considered herself a cut above her neighbours on Everton Ridge. For one thing she was 'trade' - she ran a greengrocery shop in public and a money lending business in private. She taught her children to be respectable, keep up appearances and not to mix with people like the Crowleys who were both Catholic and Irish. She ruled her family with a rod of iron. Fourteen year old Louisa was the only one who did not quite fit into the family scheme of things. Louisa. with her mother dead and her father at sea, was becoming increasingly aware that all around her was hardship and the grinding poverty of the 30's. As she grew into a young lady the tough conditions of Liverpool began to impinge on her life. About the Author Lyn Andrews - Lyn Andrews was born and brought up on Merseyside, the daughter of a policeman. Now married to a policeman, she is the mother of grown-up triplets. She is the author of The White Empress, The Sisters O'Donnell, Liverpool Lou, Ellan Vannin, The Leaving of Liverpool, Maggie May, Mist Over the Mersey and Mersey Blues.

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