Looking For Love

Liverpool Sagas

by Rosie Harris

Abbie, neglected by her mother, vows that one day she will leave the Scotland Road slum. Although vibrant and attractive she has a constant need for reassurance. Will her feeling of insecurity stand in the way of her future happiness?

Genres: Historical Fiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2003

About the author

Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and for several years worked in the City Hall. Her husband, Ken, was from Wallasey and after they married they lived on Merseyside for many years.
She has been writing since the 1950’s. In the 1960’s she ran her own agency, Regional Feature Service, writing articles for most of the provincial newspapers.
During the 70’s she became Editorial Controller for a non-fiction house.
In the 1980’s, after publishing a number of non-fiction titles she turned to fiction and during the 1980/90’s had a number of short stories published as well as five books by Sphere under the name Marion Harris.
Since 2002 she has had some 20 books published by Heinemann/Arrow. She sets her books in the 20’s because she has a great admiration for the women who were wives and mothers in those days. They had none of the current time-saving equipment – no washing machines or vacuum cleaners, no instant electric fires or cookers, and certainly no Internet. Their days were long and arduous and often they had to manage on very little money.
In 2005 she was one of the judges when Arrow and Asda collaborated in a major national competition to find the next big saga writer.
Her most recent titles are Love Changes Everything and The Quality of Love. The next, Whispers of Love, will be published in March 2010.

Reviews

[Bronwyn Rykiert · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book sounded good on the cover but it was not a well told, with lots of discepancies.

For the first 3 CD's Abbie is only 11 years old and carrying on as if she were older. Sam was 13 and and Sandra Lewis, their neighbour was also 11 years. That's how old she was when she started going out with Sam, what were her parents thinking - we know what Sam's mother was thinking, she didn't care?

Peter Ryan was also 13, as he is the same age as Sam. At 13 her was sent to Reform School for something he did not do - and I thought the way he was arrested and convicted did not sound true.

Even when Abbie meets the love of her life, police constable Bradley Fisher she is only 17 to his 24 and again it just didn't seem right.

The secrets were interesting enough but still not told very well. What happened to Peter seemed such a waste, after what he had planned for himself.

I forced myself to complete to CD's but I would not recommend this story. It would have been better if the characters had have been older.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

Another book that I enjoyed, but again I felt it ended rather abruptly. A story of such sadness, when eventually it starts to become good ...it ends, I wish I could have read another chapter of happiness!

[Tracey · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a good book! I had never read a book by Rosie Harris before and I was impressed. The characters are so well described and so was the location. It's just the sort of story that I love. The story starts as the main character, Abbie, has her 11th birthday and we then follow her through her teenage years, she has a very difficult home life and at the book's heart is a huge family secret that affects everyone.

[Natalya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was searching through my grandma's old books and was attracted to the cover of it. I took it home and read it within days. I loved it, as a 13 year old (the age I was when I read it)I found her earlier life more interesting, but the book was well-written and I loved the ending.

[Pauline · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice easy read.

[Janet Randon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed it for what it was.

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even though there were a few inconsistencys in the story and at times it seemed as though I had missed a bit, I enjoyed this book a lot.