Jessie

Name: Jessie
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Jacobs
ISBN: 9781529339321

Author: Anna Jacobs

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 17 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 09/12/2019

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent - she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has planned for her. Times are changing, railways are being built across the land bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. And Jared Wilde is determined to make Jessie his wife. The primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works are nothing like the safe world Jessie once knew. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds happiness with Jared. Until another navvy becomes determined to destroy their future together...

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About Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs grew up in Lancashire and emigrated to Australia, but still visits the UK regularly to see her family and do research, something she loves. She is addicted to writing and figures she'll have to live to be 120 at least to tell all the stories that keep popping up in her imagination and nagging her to write them down. She's also addicted to her own hero, to whom she's been happily married for many years.She is the bestselling author of over ninety novels and has been shortlisted for several awards, and Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award in 2006.You can find out more on her website, www.annajacobs.com or on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Anna.Jacobs.Books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cookie1 on August 07, 2016

As usual with Anna Jacobs books this is historically interesting as well as a good story. Jessie starts life as a maid and this story follows her with trials and tribulations as her life progresses. She overcomes many great difficulties others may perish from. It was interesting learning about the b......more

Goodreads review by Sarah parry on July 01, 2018

Excellent Excellent another book from Anna Jacobs that keeps you guessing what's going to happen next I don't think there is any book of hers that I haven't enjoyed......more

Goodreads review by Kelly-Marie on November 26, 2015

I loved this story - This book actually started my Anna Jacobs obsession!......more

Goodreads review by Carol on August 31, 2021

Best book ever!!! I really enjoyed this book didn't want it to end Anna is an excellent storyteller her books are so entertaining......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on November 05, 2019

Great Good story with lots of interesting parts. Showed how things were then and how the railroad system started. Like all her books so far.......more