The Liverpool Basque

The Liverpool Basque
Helen Forrester

Another moving and heart-warming tale set in Merseyside from the author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey.In the early years of this century, many Basques left their homeland in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, to seek a better life in the New World. Most passed through the great port of Liverpool on their way. The family of little Manuel Echaniz stayed.The Liverpool Basque is the story of Manuel’s childhood and coming of age in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands. It is a story of poverty, comradeship, hardship and generosity. Brought up by women while the men are at sea, Manuel grows up with a fierce pride in his heritage and a powerful will to survive in an era of deprivation and unemployment. Against all odds, he gets himself an education of sorts and sets off on the long voyage of his life.

HELEN FORRESTER

The Liverpool Basque

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This novel is dedicated to my friend,Doroteo Vicente Elordieta, a Basque from Liverpool,whose wonderful stories about the cityinspired me to write it

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Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined

Epistle i, line 149

Moral Essays

Alexander Pope, 1688–1744

Contents

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Title Page (#u7067352c-c347-5854-b8b8-aceeec7fc218)

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Dedication (#ub9008e1e-c4f8-53f0-94a4-ee30ae9c198d)

Epigraph (#u7d437408-06de-5620-bd4a-e0ffe639a489)

Chapter One (#u8a7f2d63-6f60-5d60-85f0-bafde4e88b37)

Chapter Two (#u7cfed0a8-8bb0-5ad5-97b8-4c4048a46231)

Chapter Three (#u5a199f91-065f-51e9-8f66-d2c94501db88)

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Chapter Five (#u43bcbf1e-7298-5aa6-ac5a-e962689078b2)

Chapter Six (#u5d70d4d5-6017-5674-a4a8-9a3e0e3c9ab7)

Chapter Seven (#ub8e92ca0-6892-5804-9bdf-f18bfee0145e)

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Chapter Nine (#u121ec40b-5996-53b5-923e-b072899df364)

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