In Conversation: Eliza Morton, Trisha Ashley and Juliet Greenwood - Liv

Join us for a wonderful in-conversation evening with three bestselling authors, Eliza Morton, Trisha Ashley and Juliet Greenwood, as we hear all about their most recent releases.

Eliza Morton - The Orphans from Liverpool Lane

A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool in the 1940s from Eliza Morton, the acclaimed author of Angel of Liverpool.

1944, Liverpool.

Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living' - a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them.

Things look up when their father finally returns and the girls are allowed home but it's clear the years in the camp have taken their toll on the sweet man Marcia barely remembers and the family disintegrates.

Cynthia finds an escape with an aunt and via her ambitions to be a dancer but Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans' it's no substitute for the family she so desperately craves . . .

Trisha Ashley - The Wedding Dress Repair Shop

Can her heart be mended too?

Garland Fairford has it all - her dream job as a historical Costumier in London and handsome fiancee, Marco.

Whilst creating a replica of a dress worn by a Victorian actress, Garland, an orphan, meets a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford. Garland is delighted and intrigued to discover Honey is planning to open a wedding dress museum in Lancashire.

When Garland loses her fiancee and her job in the same week, she accepts Honey's offer to work at the museum. But building a new life for herself is put on hold when a ghost from her past, Thom, reappears.

As Garland repairs beautiful vintage wedding dresses for the museum, and her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?

Juliet Greenwood - We Can Drive There

In 2005, Juliet Greenwood met two twenty-something Hungarians who had come to the UK for three months to work. Having been originally unsure of where Hungary was, Juliet and her family were thrilled to find out that it was next to Austria and they could drive there. This is the story of that first journey and six others, in a thirty-five-year-old classic VW, with four kids and one rescue dog.

We Can Drive There is a heart-warming account of family bonds and friendships formed, how strangers can become family regardless of age, nationality or language, and the joy in taking the less conventional approach to family holidays.

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