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Lancashire lass / Anna Jacobs.

by Jacobs, Anna.

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Families -- England -- Fiction.

English -- Australia -- Fiction.

Immigrants -- Australia -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

Lancashire (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.

Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.

Jacobs, Anna. Settlers series ; 1.

9780340748275 (pbk)

446 p. ; 18 cm.

Firsy published in Great Britain in 2000 by Hodder & Stoughton.

"The only two who want to emigrate are Liza Docherty, a Lancashire lass who would go anywhwere to escape from a marriage her father is trying to force on her with an unsavoury older neighbour, and Andrew Pringle, an impractical dreamer, who is dragging his unwilling wife and daughter with him. Benedict Caine has been bribed to emigrate by the local landowner, Saul Ludlam, so that he can help the son, Josiah Ludlam, who is in disgrace, to settle in Australia as a farmer. Saul is sending Josiah as far away as he can and hopes never to see him again. Josiah's wife is ill and knows she can never return to England. What will these people make of their new lives? As it often does, migration causes other people to follow the group out to the Peel Region of Western Australia, bringing new complications in their lives. Some will die, some will succeed, and others will move on from Western Australia, either back to England or across to Victoria. For Liza and Benedict, the central characters, there will be cruel disappointments before they can win their way through to a happier life."--GoodReads.

Historical fiction.

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