Download or read book Laceys of Liverpool written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling Liverpool story of deep emotion and tangled family relationships which hide a dreadful secret. Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, Cora. Alice is married to John, Cora to his hapless younger brother Billie. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940. It is Cora's jealousy and resentment that prompts her to swap her puny baby for Alice's beautiful son. With Alice's marriage in tatters, she borrows money from Cora in order to purchase the lease of the tiny hairdresser where she works. Alice is talented; the business thrives and a chain of salons becomes Laceys of Liverpool. The relationships between the cousins Cormac and Maurice, their parents, Alice's three girls and their eventual husbands and children, combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last sixty years of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Laceys of Liverpool written by Maureen Lee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivacious Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, the bitter, ambitious Cora. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940, and Cora's jealousy and resentment prompt her to swap her puny baby for Alice's beautiful son. The relationships between the cousins Cormac and Maurice, their parents, Alice's 3 girls, and their eventual husbands and children, combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last 60 years of the 20th century.

Download or read book Laceys of Liverpool written by and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivacious Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, the bitter, ambitious Cora. Both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in 1940, and Cora's jealousy and resentment prompt her to swap her puny baby for Alice's beautiful son. The relationships between the cousins Cormac and Maurice, their parents, Alice's 3 girls, and their eventual husbands and children, combine to give a unique picture of Liverpool in the last 60 years of the 20th century.

Download or read book Mother Of Pearl written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragedy tears a family apart - a superb novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL. Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their romantic, passionate marriage was made in heaven - but with the outbreak of war, Barney volunteered to fight, and the couple were separated for five long years. When he returned to Liverpool after VE Day, he wasn't the same person - and neither was Amy. How could things have become so twisted that one day Amy would kill the husband she once so adored? And what happened to their little girl, Pearl, just five years old at the time? In 1971 Amy is released from prison - although her freedom will change the lives of others, not least that of her daughter. But Pearl has her own demons to exorcise in her quest for happiness. And the greatest question she must ask herself is this: can she ever love her mother after what she did?

Download or read book The September Girls written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two families - and their secrets . . . A superb Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen Lee In Liverpool, on a stormy September night in 1920, two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same house. Enemies at first, they later become friends when separate troubles unite them. But friendship between their daughters, Cara and Sybil, is a different matter. Nineteen years later, at the beginning of the Second World War, Cara and Sybil find themselves thrown together when they enlist and are both stationed in Malta. It is a time of live-changing repercussions for them both while, back home in Liverpool, the bombs rain down on a defiant city.

Download or read book Three Great Novels written by Maureen Lee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Great Novels written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 935 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Lee's stories are all set in Liverpool. The stories are very different but they all have the warmth and charm that readers have come to expect from this wonderful, natural storyteller. THE GIRL FROM BAREFOOT HOUSE For Josie Flynn, life with her beautiful, wayward mother in the heart of Liverpool was all she ever wanted - until Hitler's bombs ripped her childhood apart. But The War was just the start of a journey which brings her friendship and heartbreak. LACEYS OF LIVERPOOL Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, the bitter, ambitious Cora. And, when both women give birth to sons on one chaotic night in Liverpool in 1940, Cora's jealousy and resentment promptS her into an action with the most far-reaching consequences. THE HOUSE BY PRINCES PARK Ruby O'Hagan never knew her parents. Brought up in a convent, at fourteen Ruby is chosen to be a lady's companion but before long she finds herself in the slums of Liverpool, alone and with two children to support.

Download or read book Brooklyn written by Colm Toibin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power. At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.

Download or read book Lime Street Blues written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Another brilliant offering by the woman who, through her novels, has helped put Liverpool-set literature on the map' Liverpool Echo A superb novel of friendship, love and rivalry - set in the world of the 1960s Liverpool music scene 1960s Liverpool's glamorous world of music is the place to be. So when Sean, Lachlan and Max form The Merseysiders, and Jeannie and Rita become part of The Flower Girls, they put heart and soul into their performances and achieve success beyond their wildest dreams. The greatest star of all is Sean McDowd, adored by women everywhere yet unable to get his first love out of his mind. But Jeannie Flowers has married Lachlan... No one is prepared for the deceits and betrayals that lie ahead.

Download or read book The Leaving of Liverpool written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It's not the leaving of Liverpool that's grieving me, but my darling when I think of thee...' It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie Kenny - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered shocking abuse at the hands of their doctor father. With sensitive, creative Annemarie so traumatised she can barely remember her name, Mollie decides they should make a new life for themselves and she takes her younger sister to Liverpool where they will board a ship to New York. There, she thinks, they will be safe. But the smallest, cruellest twist of fate conspires to separate the girls just as the boat is about to sail, leaving Mollie stranded in Liverpool and Annemarie at the mercy of strangers in America. The subsequent paths of their lives could not be more different. Annemarie discovers her future, her fortune and her raison d'être on Broadway, while Mollie, devastated by guilt and grief at the loss of her sister, eventually carves out a life of family, hearth and home in Liverpool, a city of warmth and humour that she grows to love. As the 1920s make way for the Depression and the edgy 1930s, the spectre of another war looms. The Second World War will separate many more people from their loved ones, but, as Mollie sees in the cheerful, stoical camaraderie of blitzed Liverpool, it can also bring people together...

Download or read book De Lacy Chronicles written by Roy A. Lacy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A non-fiction Odyssey, chronicling the stirring history of just one family through time. The de Lacy family. Warring Norsemen to Norman Lords. Onward to England, and 1066, Establishing Pontefract Castle as The Key to the North. Later other members of the family including John de Lacy at the signing of the Magna Carta. Henry de Lacy the closest confidant of King Edward I. Walter de Lacy established on the medieval English/Welsh border The de Lacy family, became leading Welsh Marcher Lords. Better described as 'War Lords'. Hugh de Lacy the first 'Viscount of Ireland'. Fighting for the expansion of English rule in Ireland. Later the de Lacy family fought against the Crown. The de Lacy family now 'living beyond the pale'. The de Lacy struggle until 1691 and the fall of Limerick 'The Flight of the Wild Geese." Over the next two centuries, the de Lacy family were at the forefront of most European wars. In America a de Lacy on both sides of the Civil War of 1861. One thousand years, of the de Lacy family, their triumphs, and tragedies.

Download or read book Stepping Stones written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1930s Liverpool to London, then California and finally back to Liverpool, the powerful and compelling saga of one woman's turbulent life. Kitty O'Brien's husband is a drunken thug, and in order to feed her starving children, she sells her body on the Liverpool docks. Her daughter Lizzie is pregnant by her father and, still weak after her abortion, she kills him. Her mother takes the blame, but Lizzie cannot blot out the painful memories of her childhood. Eventually, with a failed marriage behind her, she finds fame, fortune and friendship in Hollywood - but happiness still escapes her. And so she returns to her roots, and it is her final marriage and its disastrous consequences that, at last, force her to face her past and find the happiness and peace of mind that have always eluded her.

Download or read book Dancing In The Dark written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly compelling Liverpool saga following the lives of two women - three generations apart. Millie Cameron is not at all pleased when she finds herself obliged to sort through the belongings of her aunt Flo, who has recently died. She hardly knew her aunt and besides, she has her own career to think about. But when she arrives at Flo's basement flat, Millie's interest is awakened. As she sorts through her aunt's collection of photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings she finds herself embarking on a journey - a journey to a past which includes a lost lover and a secret child. Picking through the tangled web of Flo's life, Millie makes the startling discovery that all the threads lead to herself...

Download or read book Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the emigration from Northern Ireland of persons of Scottish and English descent. Chapters are devoted to the Scotch-Irish settlements in Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, and Massachusetts and include valuable lists of early pioneers. In addition, considerable space is devoted to the redoubtable settlers of Londonderry, New Hampshire. The book's extensive appendices contain lists of great genealogical importance. Biographical information is to be met with throughout the volume.

Download or read book Violet s Children written by Maureen Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked to give a home to the orphaned children of a distant relative, it is precisely the choice she must face. Can she turn her spinster life upside down and take these lost souls into her little house on Amber Street? Abby and Will have had young lives full of tragedy. Life with Violet offers love and safety. But as they grow up, their past won't let them be and they are curious to discover life beyond Liverpool's streets.

Download or read book The Building of Jalna written by Mazo de la Roche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1944, The Building of Jalna is one of sixteen books in the Jalna series written by Canada's Mazo de la Roche. In The Building of Jalna, Adeline, an impulsive bride with an Irish temper, and her husband, Captain Whiteoak, select Lake Ontario as the site of their new home. De la Roche chronicles their trials and tribulations during the building of the house, the swimming and skating parties, and the jealousies and humourous events that arise. This is book 1 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Morning at Jalna.

Download or read book The history of Margaret Catchpole by R Cobbold written by Richard Cobbold and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: