A Liverpool Lass

by Katie Flynn

Liverpool. December, 1905. In the breaking dawn of a raw windswept morning, a new-born baby girl is left at the door of an orphange. So helpless and appealing is the foundling that young Nellie McDowell, the maid-of-all-work, decides there and then to adopt her as her own sister.In the years that follow, Nellie and Lilac become even closer than sisters in their shared struggle to survive the grinding poverty of their lot. But they cannot lean on each other for ever. Nellie delights in the promise of love - and tastes the bitterness of betrayal - just as the long finger of war stretches out to divide the girls and rob Liverpool of a whole generation of its young men ...Sure to please fans and newcomers alike, this is classic Katie Flynn saga writing at its best.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction

436 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

Katie Flynn was born in Norwich and attended Norwich High School, where she was extremely happy and extremely undistinguished. Published at the tender age of eight, in Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories, she joined a Writers’ Circle as an adult, publishing short stories, articles, etc; only turning to novels in 1971 because the postal strike cut off her main source of income!
At first she wrote under several different names – Judith Saxton, Judy Turner, Lydia Balmain, Judith Arden – but her Katie Flynn books were a delight to write and proved far more popular than she had dreamed. She has now published nearly ninety novels, twenty-seven of which are Flynns. Her most recent titles are: Lost Days of Summer and Christmas Wishes.

Reviews

[Shirley Revill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book. Recommended.

[Donna Simpson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read.

[Jacqui · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of those books where everyone is happy an even when bad things happen everyone gets a happy ending. It is very unrealistic but good for a light read.

[Charlie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay read. Wasn't overly keen on plot.

[Ann Pellew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it before I got my Kindle. Can't remember when but I haven't read a bad one of Katie's

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's ok read but I expected alot more from this! As it's one of those stories where everyone has an happy ending to me that's really unrealistic but still good for a light read.

[Heather Roets · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this easy read

[Gloria Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story started off very slow could not get into it then after page 75 the story picked up and i quite enjoyed reading this book

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite enjoyable.
But I felt that the book was taking a long time to get to the point.
This is a four star book.

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. Sorry to have finished it.

[Jacquie South]

Enjoyable.