Review
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
Review
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 )
'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 )
Product Description
Banished from her home by a jealous stepmother, Annie Gibson finds work in a doctor's household, where she learns of the world beyond Salem Street. When her childhood sweetheart asks her to marry him, all her dreams come true, but suddenly abandoned and pregnant, her life is turned upside-down.
From the Author
How the book came to be written
In 1962 I was sitting on the top of a bus with my mother, on my way to Oldham to book my wedding. Out of the window I saw a little street called Salem Street. I said, 'Ooh, what a good title for a novel! I wonder what the people were like who first lived here?' I got married a few weeks later, and am still married to the same lovely guy. It took a little longer to write the book. It was the third book I tried to write - then I wrote and rewrote it several times as I learned to write. It was finally published in 1994 in the UK and Commonwealth countries, and has since been published in the United States - Reader's Digest did a condensed version and it's been translated into Dutch. I love this tale - see how you like it! But be warned, you may then have to go on to read others of my books!
In 1962 I was sitting on the top of a bus with my mother, on my way to Oldham to book my wedding. Out of the window I saw a little street called Salem Street. I said, 'Ooh, what a good title for a novel! I wonder what the people were like who first lived here?' I got married a few weeks later, and am still married to the same lovely guy. It took a little longer to write the book. It was the third book I tried to write - then I wrote and rewrote it several times as I learned to write. It was finally published in 1994 in the UK and Commonwealth countries, and has since been published in the United States - Reader's Digest did a condensed version and it's been translated into Dutch. I love this tale - see how you like it! But be warned, you may then have to go on to read others of my books!
It's been the best-selling of my books so far. I'd thought it'd be the first of a trilogy, but instead there are five books in the Gibson Family Saga. They're all about Annie Gibson, but they weave in the stories of her eight brothers and sisters as well.
About the Author
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.
Anna Jacobs' novel Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award in 2006.
She's also addicted to her own hero, to whom she's been happily married for many years.
Anna Jacobs' novel Pride of Lancashire won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year Award in 2006.
