Pride of Lancashire, Anna Jacobs
Pride of Lancashire, Anna Jacobs
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Pride of Lancashire
Music Hall Series, Book 1

Author: Anna Jacobs

Narrator: Anne Dover

Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2019


Synopsis

Anna Jacobs' vivid Lancashire saga introduces us to the world of the music hall.

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for her siblings. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruellest of hands, rendering them more desperate than ever.

In a harsh world, small acts of kindness can bring great hope -Eli Beckett's offer of a job at the Dragon pub promises a better future for Carrie, especially as Eli's uncle has offered his nephew some spare land to build a music room.

With the great cities of England alive to the sound of music halls, the locals of Hedderby are soon looking forward to their own place of celebration and merriment. Yet not everyone in the town shares this excitement, and some will stop at nothing in the pursuit of selfish gain.

(P)2006 Isis Publishing Ltd

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

Anna Jacobs is a born storyteller. Her historical research into the nineteenth century in England provides convincing details of the abject poverty many families endured. The reader shares their hunger, the difficulty of keeping clean, the ragged clothing and cramped living conditions of labourers a......more

Goodreads review by Cyd

Great story, artfully narrated. Can't wait to read the next volume in this series!......more

This author is the best I really enjoyed this book Anna writes such wonderful stories about people who are quite poor in this era which I think even though we are in the 2020 era it can also be true of some families today which is a shame,I'm always glad they end happily and they got their music hall......more


Awards

  • Australian Romantic Novel of the Year