Orphans from Liverpool Lane
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A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool in the 1940s from Eliza Morton, the acclaimed author of Angel of Liverpool.All she wants is to go home . . .1944, Liverpool.Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living' - a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them.Things look up when their father finally returns and the girls are allowed home but it's clear the years in the camp have taken their toll on the sweet man Marcia barely remembers and the family disintegrates.Cynthia finds an escape with an aunt and via her ambitions to be a dancer but Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans' it's no substitute for the family she so desperately craves . . .
CONTRIBUTORS: Eliza Morton
EAN: 9781035015207
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
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GENRE: FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
WIDTH: 130 cm
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Book Themes:
Liverpool, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Historical romance, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place
A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool in the 1940s from Eliza Morton, the acclaimed author of Angel of Liverpool.All she wants is to go home . . .1944, Liverpool.Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living' - a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them.Things look up when their father finally returns and the girls are allowed home but it's clear the years in the camp have taken their toll on the sweet man Marcia barely remembers and the family disintegrates.Cynthia finds an escape with an aunt and via her ambitions to be a dancer but Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans' it's no substitute for the family she so desperately craves . . .
CONTRIBUTORS: Eliza Morton
EAN: 9781035015207
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: FICTION / Sagas, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century
WIDTH: 130 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
Liverpool, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Historical romance, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Eliza Morton was born in Liverpool and worked as an actress. She is known for playing Madeline Basset in Jeeves and Wooster and Lucinda in the Liverpool sitcom, Watching. As well as TV, she has also worked in theatre and film. She trained at Guildhall School of Drama and as a writer, with The Royal Court Young Writers’ Group. She is an award-winning short-story writer and has also written drama for TV, film and theatre. In her formative years at convent school, she spent her weekends playing the piano accordion in Northern Working Men’s Clubs. She lives with her husband - the actor Peter Davison - in Middlesex and is the author of A Last Dance in Liverpool, Angel of Liverpool and The Girl From Liverpool.
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