I’m thrilled to be on the blog blitz for the fantastic The Liverpool Girls. This was a 5 star read for me and I really recommend it to everyone who likes historical fiction or a good saga. The Liverpool Girls is available now in paperback and ebook here.
Book Blurb:
Will tragedy tear them apart – once and for all?
It’s 1966 and in Liverpool two sisters are about to have their lives turned upside down…
Sisters Carol and Jackie haven’t had the easiest of childhoods, but as they grow up and begin their own lives both hope for happier times ahead. Stylish Carol works in Lewis’s department store, while Jackie dreams of drama school, and a career on the stage.
But the sisters are heartbroken when they discover they have been dating the same man, and an unexpected pregnancy causes a rift between them. Parents Dora and Joe must overcome their past hurts and help their daughters, despite the meddling of Joe’s second wife Ivy.
As the sisters’ troubles spiral and difficult decisions must be made, can the family pull together – or will Jackie and Carol’s sisterly bond be destroyed forever?
The Liverpool Girls is a heart-breaking and compelling story of family, loss and love. Perfect for fans of Annie Groves, Anne Baker and Kitty Neale.
My Review:
I was immediately drawn into The Liverpool Girls and found myself quickly immersed in their story.
The author does a great job of setting the scene for this novel and I loved the descriptions of Liverpool in the 1960’s with the MOD’s, scooters and of course the fabulous music. The writing just flows and makes the book very easy to read. There is a lot of action in the book, withe events happening very fast which also helps keep the reader interested and makes the book hard to put down. I looked that the author did this that way and didn’t dwell on certain situations when I felt it would have been easy to do this. She didn’t take the easy option either which made the book seem more real and kept it very interesting.
It would have also been easy to write this book as a happy, sweet book but its not like that and I enjoyed reading about how the characters dealt with the situations that were thrown at them and how they were changed as a result of it.
I had a love/hate relationship with the two sisters. There were times when I really related and felt for the two of them and the predicaments they found themselves in. However there were other times when they really annoyed me with their over the top actions and selfishness. Jackie was perfectly described in her reactions as a typical, love struck teenager and I recognised some of her behaviours from my own, misguided relationships at the same age. My favourite character was Dora the sister’s mother. I thought she was a very strong, loving character who really looked after her daughters and some of the passages regarding their mother-daughter relationship were very heart warming to read about. I think all girls could do with a Dora type character in their lives!
The ending was very emotional and I thought it was a brilliant, brave way to end it. I definitely had a tear in my eye as I read the last few pages and I was sorry to leave The Liverpool Girls and their world.
This is the first book by this author that I have read and the first book in this trilogy that I have read so I will definitely be going back to read the other books in the series.
Huge thanks to Kim Nash at Bookouture and Netgalley for my copy of this book and for inviting me onto the blog tour.
About The Author:
Pam Howes was born in Cheshire. She is a retired Interior Designer who began writing seriously in the mid nineties. The idea for her first novel, set in the sixties, was inspired by her time as a teenager, working in a local record store and hanging around with musicians who frequented the business. That first novel evolved into a series set in the fictional town of Pickford, based on her home town of Stockport. Three Steps to Heaven; ‘Til I Kissed You; Always On My Mind; Not Fade Away, and That’ll Be The Day, follow the lives and loves through the decades of fictional Rock’n’Roll band The Raiders. Pam is a big fan of sixties music and it’s this love that compelled her to write the series. A stand-alone true-life romance, Fast Movin’ Train, set in the nineties, was published in early 2012. A new series of Fairground Romances, set in the sixties, begins with Cathy’s Clown, to be followed by Ruby Tuesday early 2016. Pam is mum to three adult daughters, grandma to seven assorted grandchildren, and roadie to one musician partner. She still lives in Cheshire and is currently involved in raising awareness of her home-town’s musical heritage with campaigns to have Blue Plaques erected on the walls of local clubs, The Manor Lounge and The Sinking Ship, where the likes of The Walker Brother’s, The Who and Jimi Hendrix played; now closed, but still firmly in the hearts of Stockport’s recycled teenagers.
Pam recently signed a contract with the award winning publisher Bookouture and the first novel in her new trilogy, The Lost Daughter of Liverpool, will be on sale in February 2017
All books are available in Kindle format, paperback, and Fast Movin’ Train is also available as an audio book.
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Over The Rainbow Blog 
Sounds like a good one. Great review.
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