A Liverpool Lass
Author: Flynn, Katie
ISBN: 9780099429999
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jun 2001
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
ISBN: 9780099429999
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 15 Jun 2001
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
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.
