TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrews, Lyn,
TI  - The girls from Mersey View
SN  - 1472269683
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Headline
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nineteen thirties
KW  - Neighbors
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Abandoned children
KW  - Liverpool (England)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - In her nostalgic and heart-warming new saga, Sunday Times bestselling author Lyn Andrews evokes the ups and downs of life in the back streets of 1930s Liverpool Liverpool, 1935. Monica Savage is delighted when new neighbours move in next door, and she and Joan Copperfield quickly become firm friends. While Monica's father has a good job as a guard on the railway, Joan's family are harder up, with her sailor dad Billy mostly off at sea, and restless when he's home - Mersey View is no substitute for the exotic places he sails to. Though money's tight, the Copperfield women are spirited and independent, and it's her friendship with the more confident Joan that gives Monica the courage to challenge her parents and pursue her dream of becoming a hairdresser. Joan is lucky enough to get a job at Crawford's biscuit factory, where she's even allowed to buy broken biscuits cheaply as a perk. But there are dark secrets lurking. When a beautiful young woman arrives unexpectedly on the street, her arrival, and the revelation of why she's here, will change everything. As war clouds gather, can the mistakes of the past ever be forgiven?
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