Yes, Mama

Helen Forrester

Yes, Mama
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 1989
Pages
368
ISBN
9780006174707

Yes, Mama

Helen Forrester

From the author of four bestselling autobiographies and a number of equally successful novels, comes another moving tale.
A triumph of innocence over hypocrisy…

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter.

It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed. In a hypocritical society full of thin-lipped disapproval, Alicia would learn that the human spirit can soar over adversity and that, though blood may be thicker than water, love is the most powerful relationship of all…

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