Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester's heart-warming and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers. Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool. Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up. Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times. Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands? The Liverpool Boy was previously titled The Liverpool Basque. - Helen Forrester invented the misery memoir with her first autobiography, Twopence to Cross the Mersey. - The four volumes of autobiography went on to sell millions of copies across the globe and her humble account of her years of hardship spoke to many. - Helen's Fiction, including Liverpool Daisy, The Latchkey Kid and A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin were inspired by her early life in Liverpool. - Helen's memoirs have been continually in print since Twopence to Cross the Mersey was published in 1974. - The e-Book editions continue to be bestsellers and Helen's humour and warmth have been discovered by a whole new generation of fans. - Helen Forrester died in 2011 aged 92 in her adopted home of Canada. Competition: Jam And Roses. Maureen Lee;Nadine Dorries; Anne Baker

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