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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1974 The classic true story of a Liverpool childhood. Twopence was the price of the ferry-boat between Liverpool and Birkenhead. A tiny sum but an impassable barrier for the poor of Liverpool desperate to escape the city's grinding poverty. When her father went bankrupt in 1930, Helen and her 6 siblings were forced into utmost destitution. One young girl's courage. Helen Forrester was the pen name of June Bhatia (nee Huband)