Helen Forrester, bestselling memoirist, dies aged 92
Author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey and other influential accounts of an impoverished Liverpool childhood
Helen Forrester, whose bestselling autobiographies about her impoverished upbringing in Liverpool's slums provided an influential new template for the memoir, has died at the age of 92.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 29 November, 2011
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