The Liverpool Rose, Katie Flynn
The Liverpool Rose, Katie Flynn
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The Liverpool Rose

Author: Katie Flynn

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 14 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 03/01/2018

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle. She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues the pair of them from drowning. Clem works on the canal boat, The Liverpool Rose, with Jake Pridmore and his wife, plying between the great cities of Leeds and Liverpool. Lizzie's situation at home starts to worsen and eventually she is forced to flee. Her first instinct is to make for the canal, but finding Clem is not so easy . . .

About Katie Flynn

Katie Flynn is the pen name of the much-loved writer, Judy Turner, who published over ninety novels in her lifetime. Judy's unique stories were inspired by hearing family recollections of life in Liverpool during the early twentieth century, and her books went on to sell more than eight million copies. Judy passed away in January 2019, aged 82.The legacy of Katie Flynn lives on through her daughter, Holly Flynn, who continues to write under the Katie Flynn name. Holly worked as an assistant to her mother for many years and together they co-authored a number of Katie Flynn novels.Holly lives in the north east of Wales with her husband Simon and their two children. When she's not writing she enjoys walking her two lurchers, Sparky and Snoopy, in the surrounding countryside, and cooking forbidden foods such as pies, cakes and puddings! She looks forward to sharing many more Katie Flynn stories, which she and her mother devised together, with readers in the years to come.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shirley

Simply awesome. Storytelling at it's best. Recommended.......more

Goodreads review by Kal

3.5. Nothing happens in the first half.......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Enjoyed this book alot......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

It sounds like a boring old fashioned book, maybe a love story? It is overall a love story, but gentle and winding. It is not boring however, because the reader learns about life in the 1920s. The characters were well constructed with plenty of depth. Easy reading with descriptions of strange and diffe......more

I love reading books set in the 1920's. Only a hundred years ago but my! how hard it was for normal people to survive. People looked out for one another and helped their friends and neighbours. Life was tough then. I loved Sausage and Mash 😍 Best quote for me... 'Even as she sat up, wiping the sweat of......more