The Leaving of Liverpool
Price
$8.70
Format
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Orion
Publication Date
December 27, 2007
ISBN-13
978-0752881928
Dimensions
5.13 x 1.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight
11.7 ounces
Description
Review Past and present intertwine in this warm, gently nostalgic drama -- a gema real page-turner from a master of the genre, with believeable characters and lots of period detailssuper saga About the Author Maureen Lee was born in Liverpool and had numerous short stories published and a play professionally staged before her first novel was published. Her award-winning novels earned her many fans and she was a regular SUNDAY TIMES top ten bestseller. Her novel DANCING IN THE DARK won the RNA Award. Maureen Lee lived in Colchester with her family until she passed away in 2020.
Features & Highlights
- Two sisters; one heartbreaking mistake; a lifetime apart
- It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the hands of their father. They head to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York. But the smallest, cruellest twist of fate conspires to separate the girls just as the boat is about to sail, leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool and Annemarie at the mercy of strangers in America. The subsequent paths of their lives could not be more different. Annemarie discovers her future and her fortune, while Mollie, devastated by guilt and grief at the loss of her sister, eventually carves out a new life in Liverpool. Then the Second World War looms - with surprising consequences for the two sisters...
