Salem Street: Book One in the brilliantly heartwarming Gibson Family Saga - Softcover

Jacobs, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444735314 ISBN 13: 9781444735314

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994

Synopsis

The first book in the heartwarming Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs.

In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of the first to move in - a step up in the world for them. But when her mother dies, Annie's happy childhood ends and she is left to bring up her brother and sister.

Red-haired, intelligent and startlingly pretty, Annie soon finds herself banished from home by a jealous stepmother. She finds work in the local doctor's household where she learns about the fascinating world outside Salem Street. And when her adored childhood friend Matt asks her to marry him, Annie thikns her dreams are coming true.

But suddenly everything turns upside-down. Abandoned and pregant, Annie returns to Salem Street, where an unexpected offer gives her independence. One day, she vows, she will move into the wider world again. One day...

About this title

Review:

Anna Jacobs' books are deservedly popular. She is one of the best writers of Lancashire sagas around. (Historical Novels Reviews)

Catherine Cookson fans will cheer! (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)

Anna Jacobs' books have an impressive grasp of human emotions. (The Sunday Times)

From the Author:

How the book came to be written
In 1962 I was sitting on the top of a bus with my mother, on my way to Oldham to book my wedding. Out of the window I saw a little street called Salem Street. I said, 'Ooh, what a good title for a novel! I wonder what the people were like who first lived here?' I got married a few weeks later, and am still married to the same lovely guy. It took a little longer to write the book. It was the third book I tried to write - then I wrote and rewrote it several times as I learned to write. It was finally published in 1994 in the UK and Commonwealth countries, and has since been published in the United States - Reader's Digest did a condensed version and it's been translated into Dutch. I love this tale - see how you like it! But be warned, you may then have to go on to read others of my books!

It's been the best-selling of my books so far. I'd thought it'd be the first of a trilogy, but instead there are five books in the Gibson Family Saga. They're all about Annie Gibson, but they weave in the stories of her eight brothers and sisters as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1444735314
• ISBN 13: 9781444735314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496