The Girl from Barefoot House [Paperback] Lee, Maureen

Liverpool, 1925. Josie Flynn is born into chaos — her mother vanishes hours after giving birth, leaving her aunt to raise eight children in a cramped terraced house everyone calls Barefoot House. Josie grows up tough, quick-witted, and determined to escape the poverty that clings to her family like soot. But when war breaks out and secrets from the past resurface, she discovers that some ties can't be severed — and some wounds run deeper than she ever imagined. Maureen Lee writes working-class Liverpool with unflinching honesty and warmth, capturing the resilience of women who make miracles out of rationed sugar and sheer bloody-mindedness. The voices are sharp, the family dynamics messy and real, and Josie is the kind of heroine you root for even when she's making questionable choices. For fans of Katie Flynn or Dilly Court — gritty, heartfelt sagas that don't sugarcoat the past.