A compelling novel of Liverpool and Canada, from the bestselling author of Liverpool Daisy, Three Women of Liverpool and Thursday's Child. For Helena Al-Khoury, life as an immigrant has been full of loneliness and despair. On the long road that has taken her from her family home in the Lebanon to the bustling port of Liverpool, the slums of Chicago, and finally to the Canadian wilderness, the struggle to overcome heartbreak, loss and cruel hardship has taken a heavy toll. Now, at last, with the constant support of Joe, her devoted lover, she has developed into a strong, independent woman. When unexpected circumstances take her back across the Atlantic to Liverpool, Helena is offered the chance to take over the family business, and to become a success in her own right. Yet with her love far away on another continent, she feels torn apart. Soon the tragedies of the past and the challenges of the future threaten to overwhelm her!
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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 over thirty years now she has made her home in Alberta, Canada. In 1988 she was awarded an honourary D.Litt. by the University of Liverpool in recognition of her achievements as an author.
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If You Enjoy Listening To Broken Records, This Is The Book For You,
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Wallace Helena was born in Beirut. Her family escaped Lebanon during a Turkish rebellion. They fled to Chicago via Liverpool. After her father died, her mother fell in love with a pioneer living in the territories in Canada near Edmonton. After her mother and step-mother succombed to small pox, she discovered she inherited a soap factory owned by her uncle who had lived in Liverpool. For hundreds of pages, Wallace Helena decides what to do with the soap factory. Will she keep it, will she sell it, will she be fair to her cousin, her only living relative, who is her uncle's illegitimate son? Reread the last sentence fifty times. and then skip to the last thiry pages of the book.
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