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The Liverpool Rose (Paperback)

by Katie Flynn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (6 Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099429268
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099429265
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 101,482 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lizzie is an orphan living with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Perce and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, Liverpool, within a stone's throw of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can. She makes friends with Geoff Gardiner, another orphan, and is teaching him to swim in the Scaldy when Clem Gilligan rescues the pair of them from drowning. Clem works on the Canal boat, The Livelpool Rose, with Jake Pridmore and his wife, plying between the great cities of Leeds and Liverpool. But Lizzie's situation at home starts to worsen as her uncle grows surlier and more violent. Eventually, the worst happens and Lizzie is forced to flee from the Court or risk serious injury, perhaps even death. Her first instinct is to make for the canal, but finding Clem is not easy...

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Katie Flynn lives in the North-west with her family. She was prompted to write her Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members about the city in the past. She has also written many books as Judith Saxton.

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3.0 out of 5 stars An OK historical novel, but with inaccuracies. , 1 Sep 2007
By Andrew Denny (Granny Buttons, canals of England) - See all my reviews
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I read this as a canal boater, not a lover of romantic or period novels. It's a good time-passer, but not a page-turner. I think the strength is in the sense of Liverpool, not the strength of dialogue or plot. The dialogue is a bit stilted and didactic in places, with too many subordinate clauses. People don't speak like that (not even in 'the Pool':-)

Katie Flynn dedicates the book to a couple of canal boaters who helped her with the research about the canals, and teaching her to steer, which was nice of her.

However, they haven't taught her properly about the history of the canal. The plot relies on the Liverpool Rose boat being one of a narrowboat pair, but narrowboats never operated on the Leeds & Liverpool - at least, not traditional full-length ones. The canal used the wider 'shortboats', and they weren't towed in pairs by horses either.

And the main hero (Clem) seems to have come from a Yorkshire or Lancashire mining village but talks/acts like a Liverpudlian which confused me.

The book could also have been a third shorter with greater pace, I think.

But you won't ask for your money back.
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