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Issue 44 / May 2012

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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