Down Weavers Lane (Windsor Selection) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Anna Jacobs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002 | Series: Windsor Selection

Emmy Carter's mother is a prostitute - and her life has made Emmy determined to avoid the same fate. But Emmy is beautiful, so attracts unwanted attention; her mother's protector has his eye on her, as does evil Marcus Armistead, her employer's nephew. Marcus is excited by Emmy's virginity and has her kidnapped, but Emmy hits him over the head and escapes. Marcus, futher enraged, kills her mother and becomes even more determined to rape Emmy, but the combined efforts of the local parson and Emmy's young suitor manage to keep her safe from harm. Finally Emmy sees Marcus get his just desserts, finds out who her father was, and attains the respectability she has so longed for.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

'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 Preview 'Brilliant, 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 Lass --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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print edition edition (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754017273
• ISBN-13: 978-0754017271

More About the Author

Anna Jacobs was born in England but emigrated to Australia thirty years ago. Now she and her husband spend part of the year in each country. She's totally addicted to writing, and produces three novels a year. If she slows down, new characters nag her till she tells their stories. And after all, dusting isn't important - story-telling is. She was first published in fiction in 1992 and as of April 2011, she has had 53 novels published, a few under other names. At the moment Anna is writing historical sagas for one UK publisher and modern novels for another, but she doesn't guarantee not to try other genres. Writing is too much fun to be limited in any way. She's been married to her own hero for many happy years, and they have two daughters and one grandson.

Anna also wrote fantasy novels as Shannah Jay, and these books have now been reiussed as Kindle books.