Book description
The spellbinding new novel from the much-loved author of
Farewell to Lancashire
Wiltshire, 1910. With her stepfather threatening her with a forced
marriage, Mattie Willitt flees home in search of a better life. She
is soon lost and at the mercy of the elements Â- until her life is
saved by Jacob, a widower who takes her in and nurses her back to
health. Finding consolation in each other's troubled pasts, the pair
soon grow close
But when pressure is put upon them to marry, and Mattie's
stepfather discovers her whereabouts, they must face their fears and
stand up to those who threaten their future happiness.
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Anna Jacobs is the author of fifty novels and is addicted to
storytelling. She grew up in Lancashire, emigrated to Australia in the
1970s and writes stories set in both countries. She loves to return to
England regularly to visit her family and soak up the history. She has
two grown-up daughters and a grandson, and 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.
www. annajacobs. com
