That Liverpool Girl, Ruth Hamilton
That Liverpool Girl, Ruth Hamilton
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That Liverpool Girl

Author: Ruth Hamilton

Narrator: Marlene Sidaway

Unabridged: 16 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 01/01/2012

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

In the backstreets of Liverpool, Eileen Watson lives with her mother Nellie, daughter Mel and her three tearaway sons. Life isn’t great, but they have each other, and family can get you through anything. Or can it? Then Britain declares war on Germany and their lives change forever. The children have to be evacuated, but Mel refuses to go, and so Eileen says goodbye to her mother and sons, moves away from the street they love and faces a future without her precious family. Thus begins a journey for them all. A journey filled with forbidden love, tragedy and the terrifying sounds of a city they love crumbling into the craters left by the Luftwaffe. Their lives will never be the same again…

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on January 26, 2014

I tried very hard to like this book more, and wanted to give it three stars, but after a long hard think, I couldn't justify it. This was a frustrating read, because I know that there is an excellent book in here somewhere. Unfortunately, Hamilton's storyline is so jumbled, with the action jumping r......more

Goodreads review by Carol Anne on July 05, 2021

Loved this book. Ruth Hamilton was a master storyteller. So much happening inside this one, Love, forbidden love, an unrequited love, death, birth, new beginnings for some with the best descriptions I’ve ever read about the almost total Annihilation of Liverpool and Bootle by the Germans..Such heart......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on April 15, 2020

There’s something about this type of book that pulls me in almost every time. Strong women holding their families together through difficult times. Eileen is a strong independent woman who is very forward thinking for the time (early 1940s). Her daughter Mel made me laugh and was equal parts likeable......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on August 08, 2014

Set in Liverpool at the start of WW2, this book took me back to my Nan's home in Aiintree. Now, to show how impressive a feat that is, my Nan died when I was 4yrs old and I am now 44yrs old. So, for me, this book was all about the older characters and a much loved city - Nan's neighbours, Mum's frie......more

Goodreads review by Anne on June 12, 2014

Coming from Lancashire and the Bolton area in particular, I love Ruth Hamilton's books. This one switches between the Bolton area and Liverpool with consummate ease. Set during the first three years of WWII, it tells the story of widowed Eileen Watson, her mother Nellie and her daughter Mel, as well......more