Yes, Mama (Windsor Selections S.) - Hardcover

Forrester, Helen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0862202604 ISBN 13: 9780862202606

Publisher: Chivers Press, 1988

Synopsis

From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.

A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy...

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter.

It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval, Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that, though blood may be thicker than water, love is the most powerful relationship of all...

About this title

Review:

Praise for Liverpool Miss:

‘Records of hardship during the Thirties or earlier are not rare; but this has features that make it stand apart’
Observer

‘The story of a young girl’s courage and perseverance against adversity... warm-hearted and excellent’
Manchester Evening News

About the Author:

Helen Forrester was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, the eldest of seven children. For many years, until she married, her home was Liverpool, a city that features prominently in her work. For many decades, she made her home with her husband and son in Alberta, Canada. Helen died in 2011 aged 92.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chivers Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0862202604
• ISBN 13: 9780862202606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432