June Huband was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, Wirral Peninsula, the eldest of seven children of inept, socialite, middle-class parents who lived on credit.
Evicted from their comfortable home in an English market town and with nothing more than the clothes they stood up in, the large family took the train to Liverpool, where they hoped to rebuild their lives.
At the age of 14 Forrester rebelled against her life of drudgery and her parents agreed to allow her to attend evening classes to make up for her missed years of education.
After surviving the Liverpool Blitz and losing two consecutive fiancés to the Second World War she met and, in 1950, married physicist Dr. Avadh Bhatia (d.1984).
[3] A Blue Plaque was unveiled in her honour at 5 Warren Road, Hoylake, Wirral (her maternal grandmother's home where she spent happy childhood holidays)[9] in 2020 by actors Mark Moraghan and Sian Reeves who were performing in the stage version of By The Waters of Liverpool.