Born in Cheshire, Helen Forrester, the eldest of seven children, made her home in Liverpool before emigrating to Canada. She is the author of four bestselling volumes of autobiography and a number of equally successful novels.

‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’ Sunday Telegraph‘It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they’d had to rely on parish hand outs … [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, “You must read this”.’ Caitlin Moran‘What makes this writer’s self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject’ The Good Book Guide

Born in Cheshire, Helen Forrester, the eldest of seven children, made her home in Liverpool before emigrating to Canada. She is the author of four bestselling volumes of autobiography and a number of equally successful novels.

‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’ Sunday Telegraph‘It was the biography that I would have written if my parents had not been given benefits, if they’d had to rely on parish hand outs … [I] want to press this book into your hands and go, “You must read this”.’ Caitlin Moran‘What makes this writer’s self-told tale so memorable?… An absolute recall, a genius for the unforgettable detail, the rare chance of subject’ The Good Book Guide