I personally warmed to most of the characters, even Alice as her issues in life were pretty hard for a woman in the 50's to deal with. I was instantly intrigued by the lives of the families on the Four Streets, happiness and hard times. Neuware - The complete story in one single volume of Nadine Dorries' bestselling 'Four Streets' trilogy. Running past the back gate to each house was a cobbled alleyway known as 'the entry', which was odd as it was in fact 'the exit'. The Secrets and abuse the young girl had to keep was devastating but I felt it brought awareness to the subject.

This is not a book for anyone with young children, especially not the audiobook, and it left me with tears on my face and a slight lingering degree of paranoia about ever trusting anyone to be alone with my kids. Jerry and Bernadette are determined to better themselves for the sake of their children - except that the plan goes wrong and Jerry is left alone to bring up their daughter. Like many of the men on the four streets, Jerry had arrived in Liverpool from Mayo, hungry for prosperity and advancement that weren't to be found in rural Ireland, where levels of relative poverty remained almost unchanged since the sixteen hundreds, and where, right into the winters of the nineteen-sixties, children still walked to school barefoot through icy fields. I started reading this thinking it would just be about families living in a street in Liverpool in the 1950s and to start with it was.Nadine Dorries' first novel, a "heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool", has sold more than 100,000 copies, according to official sales figures.

Jerry introduced himself, as best he could, but it came out as a prolonged and indistinguishable jabbering.In this book they apparently have 7 children, but in the Lovely Lane book 4 the characters with the same name appear to have 4 and they seem to be a lot younger. Even in homes that could boast nothing in terms of material wealth, individuality fought to be expressed and admired.