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The Liverpool Matchgirl

eAudiobook
Liverpool 1901. The Tempest family is barely able to put food on the table. When Florrie falls ill with pneumonia and Arthur is imprisoned after a drunken fight their 13-year-old daughter Lizzie finds herself parentless. Despite her young age Lizzie has spirit and determination and she knows that she must find work to keep herself off the streets. In a stroke of luck she gets a job in the match factory and foreman George Rutherford takes her under his wing. A new home with the Rutherfords promises a safe haven but the years ahead will be far from trouble-free. And when Lizzie gives her heart how can she be sure she has chosen a better man than her own father?


  • Published by Soundings
  • Fiction/Non-FictionFiction
  • Genre Family Saga
  • Target Audience Adult
  • Released 1st April 2018
  • Duration 09 Hrs. 34 Mins.
  • ISBN 9781407972169