Passage Across the Mersey - Hardcover

Robert Bhatia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0008168865 ISBN 13: 9780008168865

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

The remarkable true story of Helen Forrester, author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey, and how she turned her life from tragedy to triumph.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Bhatia is Helen Forrester's only child. As a boy, he lived on Merseyside for a time and attended school where he learned to dance the Twist to the music of the Beatles. Thereafter, he developed a keen interest in, and appreciation for, English culture and history. Trained as an economist, he became a senior civil servant in Alberta, Canada. He and his wife live in Edmonton, as do their two adult children.

Review:

Praise for Helen Forrester: `It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they'd had to rely on parish hand outs ... [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, "You must read this".' Caitlin Moran `Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty' Sunday Telegraph `What makes this writer's self-told tale so memorable?... An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject' The Good Book Guide 'Should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and social document' Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0008168865
• ISBN 13: 9780008168865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384