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Book SynopsisEliza Morton was born in Liverpool and worked as an actress. She is known for playing Madeline Basset in
Jeeves and Wooster and Lucinda in the Liverpool sitcom,
Watching. As well as TV, she has also worked in theatre and film. She trained at Guildhall School of Drama and as a writer, with The Royal Court Young Writers' Group. She is an award-winning short-story writer and has also written drama for TV, film and theatre. In her formative years at convent school, she spent her weekends playing the piano accordion in Northern Working Men's Clubs. She lives with her husband - the actor Peter Davison - in Middlesex. She is author of
A Liverpool Girl and
A Last Dance in Liverpool under the name Elizabeth Morton. Most recently, as Eliza Morton, she has written the Liverpool Orpans series:
The Orphans of Liverpool Lane, The Children Left Behind and
Betsy's War.
