Stepping Stones biographical fiction at his most insightful and

at his most insightful and brilliant

When her estranged husband

None of it makes sense unless there's something hinky going on

Anthea Brock

Stepping Stones biographical fiction at his most insightful andFrom 1930s Liverpool to London, then California and finally back to Liverpool, the powerful and compelling saga of one woman's turbulent life. Kitty O'Brien's husband is a drunken thug, and in order to feed her starving children, she sells her body on the Liverpool docks. Her daughter Lizzie is pregnant by her father and, still weak after her abortion, she kills him. Her mother takes the blame, but Lizzie cannot blot out the painful memories of her