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Farewell to Lancashire (The Swan Lake Saga #1)
by
Anna Jacobs (Goodreads Author),
Nicolette McKenzie
Cassandra Blake has raised her three motherless sisters. The girls are the pride of their father Zachariah. When Lancashire's cotton supplies fail, due to the American Civil War, the mills fall silent and there's no work. There are stark choices: stay and risk starvation or pack up and begin again elsewhere. Cassandra has fallen in love with Reece Gregory. When he's given...more
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Published
2009
by Soundings
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I enjoyed this book enough to want to read the rest of the series of the Blake sisters of Lancashire.
Cassandra, Pandora, Xanthe and Maier Blake had a good life until the Civil War in America which forced the closing down of the Cotton Mill where the Blake family worked. They managed until the death of their father. After his death it gave their nasty and crazy aunt Isabel Blake an excuse to get rid of them. When the girls started sewing to help earn some money Isabel had sent a rumour around abo...more
Cassandra, Pandora, Xanthe and Maier Blake had a good life until the Civil War in America which forced the closing down of the Cotton Mill where the Blake family worked. They managed until the death of their father. After his death it gave their nasty and crazy aunt Isabel Blake an excuse to get rid of them. When the girls started sewing to help earn some money Isabel had sent a rumour around abo...more
This was not the light-headed historical romance that I had expected, although it had started that way. Instead, it revealed the depths of hardship during the American war which had huge effects onEngland’s sustainability.
Four sisters nurse their sickly father as they waste away due to hunger and poverty. The only hope for Cassandra, the eldest is her friendship with Reece, who visits weekly and they discuss the pleasures of books and travel. They love each other, but in those tough times he was...more
Four sisters nurse their sickly father as they waste away due to hunger and poverty. The only hope for Cassandra, the eldest is her friendship with Reece, who visits weekly and they discuss the pleasures of books and travel. They love each other, but in those tough times he was...more
I love Anna Jacobs.....I haven't read one book yet that I haven't enjoyed. They all follow the struggles and trials of hard lives but there is usually a happy ending there somewhere. They always leave me with a heavy heart and a warm feeling.
Fantastic and engaging read. I devoured it in a day
I LIKED THIS BOOK. WAITING FOR THE SEQUEL.
I really am finished with it this time.
Mar 23, 2013
Nicky Mottram
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Anna Jacobs has 57 novels published as of April 2012. She writes historical sagas and modern novels alternately, and in the past has written historical romances and fantasy novels (the latter as Shannah Jay).
She's addicted to story-telling and writes three novels a year.
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