Mersey Maids: A moving family saga of romance, poverty and hope

by Anne Baker

Overview

The fate and happiness of a family rest on the shoulders of two young sisters...

Mersey Maids by Anne Baker depicts a family's battle against poverty, and two sisters' struggles in life and love. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Lyn Andrews.

When widower Henry Knell loses his glove-making business to the Dransfields his life is well and truly ruined. With his six young daughters, he moves into rented rooms in a Merseyside back street. Meanwhile, Hattie and Maggie, the eldest girls, are trying to hold the family together. Sophie Dransfield's husband, Daniel, takes pity on the poverty-stricken Knells and offers Maggie a job as a maid in the Dransfields' nursery. Maggie's beautiful blonde hair soon catches the eye of Sophie's brother Tom, whose dashing brother, Luke, is equally enchanted by Hattie when she joins the household as a lady's maid. But the fortunes of the two sisters do not run according to plan...

What readers are saying about Mersey Maids:

'One of her best!... An absolute blinder'

'I could not put the book down - it was just like you were there'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780755382514
Publisher:	Headline Book Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	12/09/2010
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	355,827
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Anne Baker trained as a nurse at Birkenhead General Hospital, but after her marriage went to live first in Libya and then in Nigeria. She eventually returned to her native Birkenhead where she worked as a Health Visitor for over ten years before taking up writing.