The orphans from Liverpool Lane
Morton, Elizabeth, 1961-2023
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All she wants is to go home. 1944, Liverpool. Marcia is only 12 years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living' - a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them. Things look up when their father finally returns and the girls are allowed home but it's clear the years in the camp have taken their toll on the sweet man Marcia barely remembers and the family disintegrates. Cynthia finds an escape with an aunt and her ambitions to be a dancer but Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans' it's no substitute for the family she so desperately craves.
Main title:
The orphans from Liverpool Lane / Eliza Morton.
Author:
Morton, Elizabeth, 1961-, author
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2023.
Collation:
390 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781035015207 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3598659