Liverpool Daisy- Helen Forrester-Historical fiction

We are in 1931. Daisy lives with her mother in Liverpool, her husband works on board

a steamer. She gets allotment ( a new term to me- other than land) which is part of his

wages each week. When her mother dies, her pension dies with her and Daisy is

struggling to make ends meet…. until a chance meeting gives her another way of making

an income. I enjoyed this and learnt from it. We take so many things for granted these

days. Daisy hadn’t even got a change of clothes and only washed after her monthlies

which ceased a long time ago. Anything else was seen as unnecessary. She had pawned

so much there was little left , not even clean bed sheets. Daisy is a character who despite

everything has a positive outlook on life- something we can all currently learn from. A

heart of gold goes so much further than a crock of gold in many ways and Daisy

managed both. A book that made me smile and made me think. Of life of caring

and that the little things really do mean a lot. A treasure of a read.