“The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful
and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken
childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly
winning their fight for survival. But fourteen-year-old Helen's personal battle
is to persuade her parents to allow her to earn her own living, to lead her own
life after the years of neglect and inadequate schooling while she cared for
her six younger brothers and sisters. Her untiring struggles against illness
caused by severe malnutrition and dirt (she has her first bath in four years)
and, above all, the selfish demands of her parents, make this a story of
amazing courage and perseverance.”
Review from the internet, Read by Robyn S.
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