Lime Street Blues (Paperback, New Ed)

Winner of the 2000 Romantic Novelists' Award for Dancing in the Dark, Maureen Lee is a highly accomplished author of family sagas, and this latest novel more than lives up to its predecessors. The era it is mostly set in is a memorable one for many: when music as we know it today really began. Rose Sullivan is just 13 when she leaves the orphanage and starts her life in service. More than anything in the world she wants to be loved, so it is not long before she agrees to marry gardener Tom Flowers, a man twice her age, and settle down in Liverpool. Rose is content in her life, but as her children grow up she has to question her feelings, because a new world is emerging - a different world, with changing values and wants which was unacceptable to Tom. As the 1960s dawn and Liverpool starts becoming the place to be, Max and Jeannie, Tom and Rose's children, begin to rebel against Tom's way of living and fight for their own place in the world. With their friends, they form bands and start to achieve remarkable success. But behind the public triumphs lie private griefs and disappointments. While Max and Jeannie fight for their happiness, Rose too must ask herself whether she still has the strength to change and move on. Well-plotted and absorbing with sympathetic characters and a real feel for its setting, this is a thoroughly enjoyable story of music, love and self-discovery. (Kirkus UK)

Three Liverpool families--the Flowers, the Baileys, and the McDowds--are all very different, yet inextricably linked. It is 1960s Liverpool, and the glamorous world of music is the place to be. So, when Sean, Lachlan, and Max form "The Merseysiders" and Jeannie and Rita become part of "The Flower Girls, " they put their hearts and souls into their performances and achieve success beyond their wildest dreams. The greatest star of all is Sean McDowd, adored by women everywhere, yet unable to get his first love out of his mind. But Jeannie Flowers has married Lachlan, and no one is prepared for the deceits and betrayals that lie ahead.

General

Imprint:	Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	August 2003
Authors:	Maureen Lee
Dimensions:	178 x 111 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	441
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7528-4961-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-7528-4961-1
Barcode:	9780752849614

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