Farewell to Lancashire

Swan River Saga, Book 1

By: Anna Jacobs

Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie

Saga storytelling at its finest for all Catherine Cookson fans.

Cassandra Blake has raised her three motherless sisters. The girls are the pride of their book-loving, impractical father, and not in a hurry to marry. Then the American Civil War cuts off supplies of cotton to Lancashire, the mills fall silent and there is no work. There is a stark choice: stay and risk starvation or pack up and begin again elsewhere.

Cassandra has fallen in love with Reece Gregory, but he can't support a wife. When he's given the chance to start a new life in Western Australia, he seizes the opportunity, promising to send for her.

Then an old feud tears the family apart. Cassandra is kidnapped and her sisters are forced to sail with a group of desperate cotton lasses to Fremantle. Penniless and alone, Cassandra is determined to find them again - but when she is offered a way, there is a painful price to pay.

(P)2010 Isis Publishing Limited©2009 Anna Jacobs

Great read

I really like this book it's been a long time I have given anh book five stars but this story flows well the plot is good the characters likable, hated and sometimes funny the narrator did a great job this is a great start to the series