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 Leaving of Liverpool, The by Lee, Maureen |
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Brief Description Two sisters; one heartbreaking mistake; a lifetime apart |
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Prizes Won By This Title (See the awards link at the top of the page for other prize winners) Shortlisted for Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year Award 2008. |
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Author Information Maureen Lee was born in Liverpool and had numerous short stories published and a play professionally staged before her first novel was published. She is an RNA winner and writes full time. |
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Author Profile Maureen Lee's award winning novels have earned her many fans. Her latest novel, The Leaving of Liverpool was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Maureen was born in Bootle and lives in Colchester, Essex. |
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Synopsis It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - 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 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 and her fortune, while Mollie, devastated by guilt and grief at the loss of her sister, eventually carves out a new life in Liverpool. Then the Second World War looms - with surprising consequences for the two sisters... |
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