Review
'Catherine Cookson fans will cheer' (Peterborough Evening Telegraph )
Review
'Catherine Cookson fans will cheer' -- Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Product Description
Keara Michaels doesn’t want to leave her family in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. And Theo Mullane, the man who loves her, is married, with an ailing baby son, so cannot follow her as he longs to.
Mark Gibson leaves Lancashire to avoid marriage. But gold prospecting is a dangerous pursuit, and when his gentle young wife dies in childbirth, his father-in-law kidnaps the baby. So Mark runs away again, this time to Western Australia, where he employs Keara in his country inn.
But danger threatens them all, even in the bush, as Keara searches for her lost
sisters, Theo comes looking for the woman he loves, and Mark at last confronts his past.
Mark Gibson leaves Lancashire to avoid marriage. But gold prospecting is a dangerous pursuit, and when his gentle young wife dies in childbirth, his father-in-law kidnaps the baby. So Mark runs away again, this time to Western Australia, where he employs Keara in his country inn.
But danger threatens them all, even in the bush, as Keara searches for her lost
sisters, Theo comes looking for the woman he loves, and Mark at last confronts his past.
From the Author
It was very interesting writing this story, because it's set in so many different places - Ireland, Lancashire, the forests of Western Australia and the goldfields of Victoria (in the east of Australia).
And when I was 30,000 words into the 130,000 word story, the villain 'refused' to be villainous, insisted he'd fallen in love with Keara, the heroine - and I had to change what I'd written. And he was right - it makes a much better story and he does love her.
The sequel 'Twopenny Rainbows' was just as interesting to write and that too goes from Ireland to both the east and west sides of Australia.
I hope you'll enjoy reading my books as much as I enjoy writing them. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Anna Jacobs grew up in Lancashire and emigrated to Australia in 1973, but loves to return to England regularly to visit her family and soak up the history. She has two grown-up daughters and now lives with her husband in a spacious waterfront home. Often as she writes, dolphins frolic outside the window of her study. Inside, the house is crammed with thousands of books.
