Down Weavers Lane
$25.93
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2002
Summary
Emmy Carter’s mother is a prostitute, and Emmy is determined to avoid the same fate. But Emmy is beautiful and attracts unwanted attention from her mother’s protector and her employer’s nephew, evil Marcus Armistead. Marcus, excited by Emmy’s virginity, has her kidnapped, but she escapes. Enraged, Marcus kills her mother and becomes even more determined to rape Emmy. However, the combined efforts of the local parson and Emmy’s young suitor manage to keep her safe. Finally, Emmy sees Marcus ge…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340750599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340750596 |
| Author: | Anna Jacobs |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 110mm x 34mm |
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Industrial Lancashire in the 1830s with the daughter of a prostitute determined to avoid her mother’s plight
Catherine Cookson fans will cheer! - Peterborough Evening Telegraph on Our Polly
Industrial Lancashire in the 1830s with the daughter of a prostitute determined to avoid her mother’s plight - The Bookseller - Paperback PreviewBrilliant, no one can match her writing ability … I have just finished reading it, couldn’t put it down, it held me absorbed on every page. - Amazon reader on Lancashire LassAbout The Author
Anna Jacobs
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.
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