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Our Lizzie [Kindle Edition]

Anna Jacobs (Author)
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Praise for Anna Jacobs:
'Catherine Cookson fans will cheer!' (Peterborough Evening Telegraph )

'Anna Jacobs' books are deservedly popular. She is one of the best writers of Lancashire sagas around.' (Historical Novels Review )

'An exciting book of immensely brilliant character portrayal and a great storyline' (Bangor Chronicle on OUR EVA )

'Another cracking read with a vivid insight into family relationships' (Coventry Evening Telegraph on OUR EVA )

'Once again you have given us a story that has me hooked from the first page to the last. The characters are so alive that I am loath to call them characters, they are people - so real that you almost feel for them' (Reader from Scotland on OUR MARY ANN )

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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.
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 573 KB
  • Print Length: 394 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0312311435
  • Publisher: Hodder (7 Oct 1999)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004JHY6BO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #15,807 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Superb reading 14 Jan 2000
By A Customer
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
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
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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