Lime Street at Two

Lime Street at Two
Helen Forrester

The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester’s bestselling autobiography concludes the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life Liverpool.In 1940 Helen, now twenty, is working long hours at a welfare centre in Bootle, five miles from home. Her wages are pitifully low and her mother claims the whole of them for housekeeping but she is still thrilled to be working and gaining some independence. The Second World War is affecting every part of the country and Hitler’s Luftwaffe nightly seek to wreck havoc on her home city of Liverpool.Then, tragedy is brought shockingly close to home and Helen is left reeling when she receives some terrible news. But there is no let-up in the bombing and the Germans seem determined to bring the country to its knees. When a move brings more trouble for Helen, she is determined that she will face it, as ever, with courage and determination.

HELEN FORRESTER

Lime Street at Two

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Source ISBN: 9780008180942

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To my husband

The generals, the institution can

select a strategy, lay it out,

but what happens on the battlefield

is quite different.

Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi

(1828–1910)

Table of Contents

Cover (#ueaa2acf3-e349-5d9e-b83c-019a4d40f05f)

Title Page (#u64ccf200-059b-538a-b74b-e8976d017c46)

Copyright (#u3cf8bc5f-884b-55d8-bd1f-9e3607d00d09)

Dedication (#ubc5aa015-6cb0-59ff-9a13-8e909285922c)

Epigraph (#uc9bde58b-99d2-5b87-af16-ef953d9d6389)

Chapter One (#uc59fefb7-9234-53ca-b971-58c2d773aa2d)

Chapter Two (#u0399eef0-155f-52ea-a4f6-ec0d66e24fe8)

Chapter Three (#u9aca629c-7f96-50c5-b069-254de2ac35f4)

Chapter Four (#ub781746d-88b8-5a87-9af3-b042e1defe5f)

Chapter Five (#ubdcb87ae-aa29-57a5-aaea-bd05e25b3def)

Chapter Six (#uf7dac57e-f59b-5daf-99cd-cf7e68d8c460)

Chapter Seven (#ue9e41182-61d3-56a3-9790-9b9261772624)

Chapter Eight (#uc0300566-0ca0-5f5a-b8d3-42c36dd4a91a)

Chapter Nine (#u82d78aaf-080d-5179-bafb-6f9e0523ea88)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)