The Orphans from Liverpool Lane - The heartwarming and emotional wartime saga

Informationen zum Autor 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. She is author of A Liverpool Girl and A Last Dance in Liverpool under the name Elizabeth Morton. Klappentext Left behind by her family, Marcia is sent to an orphanage - dreaming of one day finding a true home of her own. The Orphans of Liverpool Lane is a heartfelt wartime saga from Eliza Morton. Zusammenfassung A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool, The Orphans from Liverpool Lane is a heartfelt story 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 her ambitions to be a dancer. But Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans', it is no substitute for the family she so desperately craves . . . ...

Product details

• Authors: Eliza Morton, Elizabeth Morton, Lizzie Morton
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.07.2023
• EAN: 9781035015207
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501520-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Liverpool Orphans Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, Liverpool, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)