Book description
Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine
village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without
her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her
vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much, he would happily
offer money to any man who would wed her. When her mother dies, Rachel
is at the mercy of her increasingly violent father. Her only escape is
by marrying a kindly man with whom she finds happiness, if not passion,
and her life begins to seem complete. Rachel's growing prosperity
infuriates her father and his cronies, however, and they will stop at
nothing to see her destroyed. 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.
