A Pennyworth of Sunshine
By (Author) Anna Jacobs
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
9th October 2003
1st September 2003
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823
Paperback
368
Width 128mm, Height 194mm, Spine 26mm
220g
The new novel of life in nineteenth century Lancashire and Australia from one of Hodder's fastest growing saga writers. Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave her family in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. And Theo Mullane, the man who loves her, is married, with an ailing baby son, so cannot follow her as he longs to. Mark Gibson leaves Lancashire to avoid marriage. But gold prospecting is a dangerous pursuit, and when his gentle young wife dies in childbirth, his father-in-law kidnaps the baby. So Mark runs away again, this time to Western Australia, where he employs Keara in his country inn. But danger threatens them all, even in the bush, as Keara searches for her lost sisters, Theo comes looking for the woman he loves, and Mark at last confronts his past.
'Catherine Cookson fans will cheer' -- Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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.