Liverpool Daisy

SKU: 9780007905973
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Liverpool Daisy

SKU: 9780007905973
Author: Helen Forrester
Ages 18+·Historical Fiction
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At a glance

✨ Mood
Gritty, emotional, resilient
⏳ Pace
Steady, immersive
🌿 Atmosphere
Working-class Liverpool, harsh, vividly real
💭 Themes
Poverty, survival, family, determination
🧠 Depth
Emotional, character-driven
💬 Hook
Growing up in hardship, one girl must find strength beyond her years to survive.
👥 Perfect For
Fans of Kitty Neale, memoir-style fiction
📖 Readers Who’ll Love This
Readers who love gritty, real-life-inspired childhood stories of resilience and survival
Liverpool 1931, where Daisy Gallagher, big, tough and loving, learns to fight competition, laugh with her customers, weep in private.

In a Liverpool torn by the Depression, Daisy Gallagher grows to womanhood the hard way. She is the mainstay of her poverty-stricken family and the devoted friend of Nellie O'Brian, who is dying for lack of medical attention. Daisy's desperation for money leads her into the darkened streets and into the arms of drunken sailors willing to pay for their relief.

Through her own strength and suffering, Daisy earns enough to pay for her friend's much needed medical attention. Her family know nothing of her occupation, but when her stoker husband returns from the sea Daisy realizes, terror-stricken, that the moment of truth has finally arrived...

Book details

Reading age
18+
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
16 October 2006
Language
English
ISBN
9780007905973

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