Mersey View - Hardcover

Hamilton, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 023074821X ISBN 13: 9780230748217

Publisher: Macmillan UK, 2010

Synopsis

At the age of 45, Lucy Henshaw has finally left home. Her decision to go has been reached neither lightly nor suddenly, since her marriage has been broken for some eighteen years. However, as the mother of twin sons and a daughter, Lucy has felt it her duty to stay as a couple in the family house she was born in near Bolton, giving her children the security she knows they need.

Now that her family is grown, content in the knowledge that she loves them, Lucy decides she is free to leave. She secretly purchases a beautiful house overlooking the Mersey, near Liverpool, and there she plans to start afresh. Within hours, she has met some characters: her new neighbour Moira, who is disabled and dying, and sees Lucy as the ideal new companion for her husband, Richard; Shirley Bishop, built like a battleship and a cleaner extraordinaire, towing her several-inches-shorter husband as a handy gardener behind her; and Dr David Vincent, who is grieving for the loss of his young son. It is soon apparent that Lucy need have no anxieties about being lonely.

It is these new friends, too, who come to Lucy’s rescue when her husband Alan, falls ill. Always a wastrel and fraudster who has tried to control her, his illness only seems to offer him another opportunity to complicate Lucy’s life all over again.

Mersey View is a compelling and gritty novel set in Liverpool, and is a wonderful story, rich with warmth and humour, by a much-loved storyteller at the height of her powers.

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of twenty novels, including Spinning Jenny, Mulligan’s Yard, Dorothy’s War and The Judge’s Daughter. She has become one of the north-west of England’s most popuar writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan UK
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 023074821X
• ISBN 13: 9780230748217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320