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Jessie
Anna Jacobs
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Description for Jessie
Paperback. An enthralling saga set in nineteenth-century Yorkshire, by the author of LIKE NO OTHER. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 29. Weight in Grams: 248.
Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent - she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has planned for her. Times are changing, railways are being built across the land bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. And Jared Wilde is determined to make Jessie his wife. The primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works are nothing like the safe world Jessie once knew. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds ... Read more
Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent - she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has planned for her. Times are changing, railways are being built across the land bringing new freedom and possibilities. Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets an ambitious young navvy, newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. And Jared Wilde is determined to make Jessie his wife. The primitive, colourful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works are nothing like the safe world Jessie once knew. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340692998
SKU
V9780340692998
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Ref
99-10
About Anna Jacobs
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Jessie
After an action-packed start, this story develops into a well told, captivating story
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