- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition (July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312311435
- ISBN-13: 978-0312311438
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 3.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,539,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor.
She makes an ill-advised marriage in order to escape her harsh home life. However, she quickly discovers that she has married a selfish and violent man. His beatings are ceaseless and she finds herself compelled to run away. With the help of some suffragettes she escapes to Manchester, where she finds work in a munitions factory for a while. Sam manages to find her and drags her home. It is only when his violence causes her to lose their unborn baby that Lizzie really finds the strength to make things change, and to find happiness with a man who loves her. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
She makes an ill-advised marriage in order to escape her harsh home life. However, she quickly discovers that she has married a selfish and violent man. His beatings are ceaseless and she finds herself compelled to run away. With the help of some suffragettes she escapes to Manchester, where she finds work in a munitions factory for a while. Sam manages to find her and drags her home. It is only when his violence causes her to lose their unborn baby that Lizzie really finds the strength to make things change, and to find happiness with a man who loves her. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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I got the idea for OUR LIZZIE sitting on a plane going to England in 1996. I normally vegetate on planes, but this idea really gripped me and I could 'see' the heroine. Lizzie is one of my very favourites among the characters I've created. I wrote the first chapter in rough there and then. I loved doing the research for this story, my first set in the 20th century. I have my great aunt's school exercise books written in that period, so when Lizzie quotes what she is learning at school, it's taken word for word from the exercise book. A friend also lent me her grandfather's letters and WWI memorabilia, which were fascinating. I love to get in touch with what real people of the period were thinking and doing. I didn't want to write yet another World War I tale focusing on the miseries of trench warfare, however. This story begins in 1909, when Lizzie is 12, and continues till just after the war, but is set mainly on the home front in Lancashire. At one stage Lizzie works in a munitions factory. When my editor read the manuscript, she said it was my 'best yet', and I agree with her. Even the cover is my 'best' and I bought the painting it was based on, carrying it home to Australia wrapped in bubble plastic and brown paper, and terrified it would get damanged. It didn't! It's now framed and hanging in our living room. Both my husband and I love it. I was so caught up with Lizzie and her family I wanted to do a linked story about her sister Polly. This is not a sequel because it doesn't focus on Lizzie, but a separate story in which Lizzie plays a minor role. As I write these comments (October 1999) I've just begun Polly's story. I think it's going to be another good one! She's such a great character! I do hope you enjoy OUR LIZZIE and that you go on to try my other books.... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
I got the idea for OUR LIZZIE sitting on a plane going to England in 1996. I normally vegetate on planes, but this idea really gripped me and I could 'see' the heroine. Lizzie is one of my very favourites among the characters I've created. I wrote the first chapter in rough there and then. I loved doing the research for this story, my first set in the 20th century. I have my great aunt's school exercise books written in that period, so when Lizzie quotes what she is learning at school, it's taken word for word from the exercise book. A friend also lent me her grandfather's letters and WWI memorabilia, which were fascinating. I love to get in touch with what real people of the period were thinking and doing. I didn't want to write yet another World War I tale focusing on the miseries of trench warfare, however. This story begins in 1909, when Lizzie is 12, and continues till just after the war, but is set mainly on the home front in Lancashire. At one stage Lizzie works in a munitions factory. When my editor read the manuscript, she said it was my 'best yet', and I agree with her. Even the cover is my 'best' and I bought the painting it was based on, carrying it home to Australia wrapped in bubble plastic and brown paper, and terrified it would get damanged. It didn't! It's now framed and hanging in our living room. Both my husband and I love it. I was so caught up with Lizzie and her family I wanted to do a linked story about her sister Polly. This is not a sequel because it doesn't focus on Lizzie, but a separate story in which Lizzie plays a minor role. As I write these comments (October 1999) I've just begun Polly's story. I think it's going to be another good one! She's such a great character! I do hope you enjoy OUR LIZZIE and that you go on to try my other books.... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is how Catherine Cookson used to write in her early days of writing, I could'nt put the book down, one felt as though you were Lizzie herself,excellent writing by the author, it is the first I have read of Anna Jacobs and I can't wait to get my hands on the next.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A strong historical character study
2 Sep 2003
Format:Hardcover
In 1908 when she was twelve, Lizzie Kershaw sees her pleasant world end with the accidental death of her father at the brewery he worked at. The family finds different ways to bring in income including two borders, the Harper sisters, who have shared a similar loss of income due to a death. Though young, Lizzie accepts a job as her part to make money. Sam Thoxby takes advantage of the grieving Kershaw and Harper families though he pretends to be a Good Samaritan providing help, but he has hidden agendas. In the case of the Kershaws, he plans to one day marry Lizzie when she is of an age because he likes her spirit.
Over the next few years, Lizzie's mother is mean and viscous towards Lizzie culminating with her forcing her to marry Sam. He is physically abusive so she learns when it is worth the beatings to challenge him. When he goes off to war, she takes employment at a munitions factory where she begins to fall in love with someone else. However, Sam still looms on the horizon and divorce is unacceptable.
This is a strong historical character study that includes a finely developed ensemble. The story line enables the audience to observe life in the first quarter of the twentieth century as Anna Jacobs provides a powerful spotlight. Sam is too sly and devious so that some of the tension between he and a rival upon his return from the war is abated. Still OUR LIZZIE is a tremendous historical fiction that escorts the audience into an up front and close view of life in England almost a century ago.
Harriet Klausner
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