HELEN FORRESTER

Helen Forrester was born in Hoylake near Liverpool, England in 1919, less than six months after the end of the First World War. Helen continued to live with her family and worked in Liverpool until the end of the World War II. iving in the slums of Liverpool, and then working there as a social worker, Helen developed an intimate knowledge of, and great empathy for, the poor but fascinating inhabitants of the inner city. She left Liverpool to get married in India and lived there for two years. Her husband’s academic career drew him away from India, first to Edinburgh, Scotland, then to Ottawa and finally Edmonton, Canada where they settled in 1955. Helen began to write seriously in Ottawa. Despite the demands of motherhood and of supporting a busy but physically frail husband, Helen persevered with her writing. Helen continued to write into her eighties producing eleven bestselling novels (and a romance novel) in addition to her memoirs. The University of Liverpool awarded Helen Forrester an honourary doctorate in 1988 followed by the University of Alberta in 1993. Helen Forrester died on November 24, 2011 in Edmonton, Alberta, aged 92.

BOOKS BY HELEN:

• THE LATCHKEY KID

• LIVERPOOL DAISY

• THREE WOMEN OF LIVERPOOL