In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's...
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her 'visitors' in their house in Weavers Lane have taught Emmy Carter that prostitution is a life she must avoid at all costs...
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of an elegant dressmaking salon in Bilsden, have come true. She is taking her father and the family away from poverty and the Rows....
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
At eighteen Cathie longs for more than a life as a settler in the Australian bush. She accepts her uncle's offer to send her to England, not realising he is using her to wreak revenge on his...
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Eva Kershaw is happy living with her dear friend Alice, who has been like a mother to her. But Alice is dying and Eva is distressed by the unexpected arrival of Gus Blake, Alice's nephew....
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Little Billy is the light of Polly's life - it's for her son's sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and an isolated farm. Then Billy is knocked down by a car, his...
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Author: JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Continues the mid-nineteenth-century Lancastrian saga of extraordinary heroine Annie Gibson, begun in 'Salem Street', and 'High Street'.