A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin, Helen Forrester
A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin, Helen Forrester
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A Cuppa Tea and an Aspirin

Author: Helen Forrester

Narrator: Lizzie Hopley

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 11/10/2022

Synopsis

Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers. Life in a Liverpool tenement block is a grim struggle for Martha Connelly, who works hard every day to protect her family from hunger and disease. When rumours of war reach the neighbourhood in 1938, it becomes clear that life will soon be changed forever. As tough as it is, this is the life that Martha knows and loves — she’ll fight not to lose it, but will she succeed? Despite their troubles, the community is full of warmth and support from friends and neighbours. Through hardships and small triumphs, they’ll strive to survive together.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ngdecker

This followed a couple of families in Liverpool from 1938 to 1965. They were extremely poor and many times it was disturbing and difficult to read, but, on the whole, I enjoyed the book. It surely shows a whole different world and makes you appreciate your life.......more

Goodreads review by Colleen

Well, I feel very fortunate that I did not have to live through either of the world wars. I felt many emotions while reading this book. The struggle these people had to go through just to exist. It's a history lesson. Some of my bigger problems seem smaller now, after reading this book. It sure give......more

Goodreads review by Ellen

Helen Forrester really writes from the heart and her own life experiences. I could not bear to put this down as it was so true to what life was like back at that time. People just had to get on with life no matter what, but this is when neighbours who were in the same type of circumstances rallied r......more

Quotes

‘Records of hardship during the Thirties or earlier are not rare; but this has features that make it stand apart’Observer ‘Remarkable that from so bleak and unloving a background came a writer of such affectionate understanding and unsettling honesty’Sunday Telegraph ‘…should be long and widely read as an extraordinary human story and social document’Observer

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