Liverpool Daisy

Helen Forrester

Oct 2012 · Robert Hale

About this ebook

Only depression-shrouded Liverpool could spawn a big, tough, loving character like Daisy Gallagher. Passionate in her loves and hatreds, she is the nan of her poverty-stricken family and devoted friend of Nellie O'Brien, who is dying from lack of medical attention. She is always desperate for money. One dark night, she is cornered by three drunken sailors who find her buxom figure, wrapped in a black shawl, comfortably attractive. From fear, she yields herself to them and, laughing, they pay her, and she realise how she can earn a living. Fighting competition, weeping at her own suffering, laughing with her clients, she becomes the toast of the waterfront and earns enough money to buy medical attention for her friend. She manages to hide from occupation from her family, but when her stoker husband returns from sea she realises, terror-stricken, that the moment of truth has arrived.

Ratings and reviews

Not a very good ending

Not the best ending.

Very interesting read

About the author

Helen Forrester, born in England and the wife of a Professor of Theoretical Physics, travelled widely. She enjoyed the theatre and walking in the countryside. She collected fans and was a member of the International Fan Circle.