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Hallam Square is Book Four of the Gibson Family Saga, a five part saga, set in the nineteenth century in industrial Lancashire, UK. The saga started with Book One, Salem Street and continued with High Street and Ridge Hill. Each book is complete in itself, but follows the lives of the same family. Hallam Square is:
'a rattling good county saga that takes in the highs and lows of Victorian life superbly'
Bolton Evening News, UK
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Hallam Square starts in 1858 when Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick. After years of struggling to make a living in the small Lancashire town of Bilsden, Annie knows she deserves to sit back and enjoy her life - after all, she's not yet forty, still in her prime. But worries - at first faint clouds on the horizon - are imminent. Frederick has been looking pale and ill lately. Her brother Tom hasn't moved on after the death of his young wife. Rebecca, her half-sister, is longing for something more than her work at the salon. And William, her son, isn't happy at university. In spite of Frederick's gentle urging not to take the burdens of the entire Gibson family on her shoulders, Annie can't help feeling concerned. And something much more dangerous is looming - a threat not only to Annie's peace of mind, but to her life as well . . . |
| Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 |
| The Gibson Family Saga concludes with Book Five Spinners Lake. |
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Hallam Square is published by Hodder & Stoughton UK in both hardback and paperback. In Australia, buy from the Australian Online Bookshop or elsewhere in the world, buy from Amazon UK. |
| Hallam Square © Anna Jacobs 1995 ISBN hardback 0 340 65376 0 paperback 0 340 65377 9 |