Lizza

It is 1926 - to her bewilderment clever fourteen year old Lizza Bremner is sent by her apparently cold mother from her crowded house in Durham to live with her dissolute sister and to work in the risky mill environment in Bradford. Here she learns lessons about life and risk but also learns independence and self-belief. She returns home to be trapped in the North for the duration of the National Strike of which her brother Bernard is a local leader.

This crossover novel is A Rights of Passage story framed in the strong characters of Lizza, her loose-living sister Ivy, their stern mother and their principled brother Bernard. It was very well received when it was first published in hardback and softback versions in 1980 and for years after. Its message of self-belief, growth and survival is as relevant today as it has ever been.

This is a revised edition


Genre: General Fiction