The Orphans from Liverpool Lane
By Eliza Morton
Genre:-Historical/Romance/Saga
Pages:-400
Publisher:-Pan Macmillan
Blurb:-A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool, The Orphans from Liverpool Lane is a heartfelt story from Eliza Morton, the acclaimed author of Angel of Liverpool.
All she wants is to go home...
1944, Liverpool.
Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage withher 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 is no substitute for the family she so desperately craves...
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My Review:-This is my first book by Eliza Morton, but I will be looking to read more. Cynthia and Marcia loved days out with their parents. The loved the last time they all out together, it was a trip to the seaside, watching a one-legged man and sitting on the beach. Everything soon changed with war. Cynthia and Marcia are now 'orphans of the living', (I did look this up as I've never heard it before.) Cynthia was more grown up compared to Marcia, she found it harder to understand things. Things would never be the same again. Cynthia could never leave Marcia again not with everything they have been through. Marcia and Cynthia had so much to plan with the wedding coming up, even if Marica wouldn't let Cynthia decide on the dress or food. This is a story that shows just how hard times must of been for families, especially when parents had to make their children orphans of living. Even with everything the family had went through they still had here other. This is both heart warming and heart breaking. The author writing style made you feel the emotions the family had to go through.
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