by Anna Jacobs · Hodder & Stoughton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340748275
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«Lancashire Lass» is the family saga novel by Anna Jacobs, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Lancashire, 19th century. Liza, a seventeen-year-old maid, watches her employers emigrate to Australia while her father tries to marry her off to a widower she detests. To escape, she embarks with them for Western Australia, where she discovers she is pregnant. Life as a settler in 1850 is hard, but Australia offers her opportunities Lancashire never did.
First instalment of The Lancashire Settlers saga. Published in 2001.
Aimed at readers of historical family sagas and emigration novels, in the tradition of Catherine Cookson.
Anna Jacobs is an English novelist. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 1962, before emigrating to Australia in 1973. She has written 109 novels, the majority of which are historical sagas or familial or relationship stories published under her own name. She has also written fantasy novels, published under the name Shannah Jay. In 2006, her novel Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Novel of the Year Award.
