A Liverpool Girl - Softcover

Morton, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529103525 ISBN 13: 9781529103526

Publisher: Ebury Press (Fiction), 2019

Synopsis

Her father is dead and her mother doesn't want her...

When Babby's dad is killed in a senseless bar room brawl it changes their family forever. She is sent away only to return home a few years later, unmarried and pregnant. Her mother is incandescent with rage and with Callum - Babby's sweetheart - nowhere to be found, persuades her daughter to go to a Mother and Baby Home.

But does Babby have no option but to give her baby up...

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Morton was born and raised in Liverpool, spending much of her formative years either at convent school, or playing her piano accordion in Northern working men's clubs. When she was 18 she trained as an actress at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and went on to work in TV, film, and theatre. She is known for the Liverpool sitcom, Watching, playing Madeleine Bassett in the ITV series, Jeeves and Wooster, and performing in Willy Russell's plays, including the role of Linda in the original cast of Blood Brothers in the West End.

She began writing after winning The London Writers Competition and has written plays as well as episodes of Doctors, the Radio 4 drama series Brief Lives, and CBeebies.
She was shortlisted for the Bath Short Story award in 2014, also shortlisted for the Dragon’s Pen competition, Fish Short Story Award, and in 2015 won prizes in the Exeter Short Story competition, and the Trisha Ashley Most Humorous Short Story. In 2016, she was one of six shortlisted in the CWA Marjorie Allingham award.

She is married to All Creatures Great and Small and Doctor Who actor, Peter Davison.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ebury Press (Fiction)
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1529103525
• ISBN 13: 9781529103526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448