Lime Street at Two

The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester’s bestselling autobiography concludes the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life in Liverpool.

In 1940 Helen, now twenty, is working long hours at a welfare centre in Bootle, five miles from home. Her wages are pitifully low and her mother claims the whole of them for housekeeping but she is still thrilled to be working and gaining some independence. The Second World War is affecting every part of the country and Hitler’s Luftwaffe nigh...