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Twopence to Cross the Mersey: Unabridged | 
 enlarge | Author: Helen Forrester
Creator: Diana Quick
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Category: Book
Buy New: £63.52
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 655617
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0001046713
EAN: 9780001046719
ASIN: 0001046713
Publication Date: October 22, 1992
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Read this and you'll read the rest... January 18, 2008
A. BAGNALL (Walsall, W.Mids UK)
Since reading this autobiography, I have gone on the buy and read every book this woman has written - including the next three volumes of the autobiography itself. It is inspirational and incredibly unusual, in that Helen Forrester tells her fascinating story without the slightest hint of self-pity. Twopence To Cross The Mersey is the first volume of her autobiography and describes how Helen and her family - her humiliated and bankrupted father, her 'difficult' mother and her six siblings arrive in depression-ridden pre-World-War Two Liverpool, hoping to make a life for themselves, only to be plunged into the depths of the most abject poverty and penury imaginable. Kept at home to keep house for the family of nine, Helen desperately seeks a way of finishing - and furthering her education, only to have every attempt thwarted by her shiftless parents and ungrateful brothers and sisters. I could not put this book down until I had devoured every last page, and immediately grabbed the next three volumes - all equally as fascinating. Without a doubt the best autobiography I have read.
Inspirational reminder of a vanished world July 22, 2006
Mrs. P. Carr (England)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first read this autobiography and its two sequels in the early 1980's (the fourth volume "Lime Street at Two" had not then been published). I have just visited an art gallery exhibition of a middle class Liverpool lady's clothing during the years between the two world wars, so I decided to revisit the Forrester trilogy to remind me of the great contrasts between rich and poor during that era.
Helen's story just seemed so much more poignant than ever - it was truly shocking to revisit the depths of degradation she and her family suffered following her father's bankruptcy in the context of a city which could offer the "Bond Street of the North" to those with the means to buy. As a Liverpool resident it also fired my imagination to read descriptions of streets at once so familiar but set in a totally different world from today.
"Twopence to cross the Mersey" and its sequels are really "must-read" books. In fact I have now become aware of the fourth volume and will be reading that as soon as possible!
Twopence to cross the mersey series (trilogy) April 13, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Fantastic read. Inspirational and informative. Definately one to have on your shelf!
Dumbstruck June 24, 2003
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I first read the Helen Forrestor accounts when i was about 9 years old. Of course, i didn't really understand what i was reading at the time, so i re-read them again when i was about 12. Out of all the series, this is the one book i could never read again - it terrified me! i was 12 years old, liviing in comfortable surroundings, attending school, and only worrying about cleaning out my hamster cage or about holding the remote before my brother switched tv channels.Forresters amazing story gave me an insight into another world, which i was glad i would never be a real part of, but on the other hand i was a horror-stricken that such painful reality existed;her continuing struggle to get to school, to be treated as her sister Fiona was and eventually when she started work, to keep some of her wages for herself. I very much doubt if any teenager today has ever encountered so much tragedy as teenages in the past have, which is not necessarily a bad thing, however, this account serves as a reminder to everyone, just how cruel life can be.
I actually felt as though i was living with helen ! January 23, 2002
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book follows Helens own life in 1930. Moving from the south to liverpool because of her fathers bankruptcy, the family move to Liverpool, which is the birthplace of her father and mother. They arrive only in the clothes they stand in and are penniless and the story follows the family as they slowly try and get back on their feet living in squallor with no money.
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