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Another moving and heart-warming tale set in Merseyside from the author of Twopence to Cross the Mersey.
In the early years of this century, many Basques left their homeland in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, to seek a better life in the New World. Most passed through the great port of Liverpool on their way. The family of little Manuel Echaniz stayed.
The Liverpool Basque is the story of Manuel’s childhood and coming of age in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands. It is a story of poverty, comradeship, hardship and generosity. Brought up by women while the men are at sea, Manuel grows up with a fierce pride in his heritage and a powerful will to survive in an era of deprivation and unemployment. Against all odds, he gets himself an education of sorts and sets off on the long voyage of his life.
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In the early years of this century, many Basques left their homeland in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, to seek a better life in the New World. Most passed through the great port of Liverpool on their way. The family of little Manuel Echaniz stayed.
'The Liverpool Basque' is the story of Manuel’s childhood and coming of age in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands. It is a story of poverty, comradeship, hardship and generosity. Brought up by women while the men are at sea, Manuel grows up with a fierce pride in his heritage and a powerful will to survive in an era of deprivation and unemployment. Against all odds, he gets himself an education of sorts, and sets off on the long voyage of his life.
“Enjoyable … moving. The author loves her subject and writes with conviction.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“A gentle book … evocative but not sentimental”
NORTHERN ECHO
“Broad in scope, fast-moving, and redolent of a busy manufacturing port at the turn of the century. Manuel … and all the rest of the relatives and neighbours spring from the page full of vitality and indomitable spirit.”
BIRMINGHAM POST
“A beautiful, original story”
THE CITIZEN
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After a necessary slow start, we are soon a fly-on-the-wall surveying the Echaniz family, who left their homeland to find a better life. This seafaring family disembark in Liverpool during the first decade of the 1900's. A staunch Catholic family, they find a house in the poorer end of Liverpool where parents, children, grand parents, uncles and aunts live under one roof, each one sharing the hardships as the first world war breaks out and bearing the dreadful fear for their men at sea. A fear too often realised by Liverpool dockland families.
Among tragedies, Tuberculosis, meagre food and inadequate warm clothing, a genuine friendship grows up between the young Manuel Echaniz and another young Basque lad he meets at School. This friendship is to last a lifetime.
A wonderfully told story based on true accounts, and brought to life by an author who's talent for the written word opens a window for which her reader can observe with wonder at a past-time unimaginable!
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