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Helen Forrester was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, the eldest of seven children. For many years, until she married, her home was Liverpool – a city that features prominently in her work. For the past forty years she has lived in Alberta, Canada.

Helen Forrester is the author of four best-selling volumes of autobiography and a number of equally successful novels, the latest of which is
Madame Barbara
. In 1988 she was awarded an honorary D.Litt by the University of Liverpool in recognition of her achievements as an author. The University of Alberta conferred on her the same honour in 1993.

This is a novel and its characters are products of my imagination, its situations likewise. Whatever similarity there may be of name, no reference is intended to any person living or dead. The loss of the ship, the
Esperanza Larrinaga
, in 1920, is part of the history of Liverpool, and I have allowed one of the characters I have created to die in it.

By Helen Forrester

Fiction

T
HURSDAY’S
C
HILD

T
HE
L
ATCHKEY
K
ID

L
IVERPOOL
D
AISY

T
HREE
W
OMEN OF
L
IVERPOOL

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HE
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ONEYLENDERS OF
S
HAHPUR

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ES
, M
AMA

T
HE
L
EMON
T
REE

T
HE
L
IVERPOOL
B
ASQUE

M
OURNING
D
OVES

M
ADAME
B
ARBARA

Non-fiction

T
WOPENCE TO
C
ROSS THE
M
ERSEY

L
IVERPOOL
M
ISS

B
Y THE
W
ATERS OF
L
IVERPOOL

L
IME
S
TREET AT
T
WO

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by
HarperCollins
Publishers
1993

Copyright © Helen Forrester 1993

The Author asserts the moral right to
be identified as the author of this work

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