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The Liverpool Boy
- Author
- Helen Forrester
- Narrator
- Lizzie Hopley
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 10 November 2022
- Run Time
- 11 hours 51 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
What to expect
Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool.
Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up.
Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times.
Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands?
The Liverpool Boy was previously titled The Liverpool Basque.
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Details
- Author
- Helen Forrester
- Narrator
- Lizzie Hopley
- Duration
- 11 hours 51 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9780008514167
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
Synopsis
Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers.Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool.Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up.Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times.Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands?The Liverpool Boy was previously titled The Liverpool Basque.
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