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‘A Pennyworth of Sunshine’ is Part 1 of a wide-ranging saga set in Australia, Lancashire and Ireland in 1859-64. It was a fascinating tale to write because part-way through the villain refused to be the villain, said he’d fallen in love with the heroine and I just couldn’t write on until I changed him to the hero. Talk about characters taking on a life of their own! We also meet Mark Gibson, who ran away to Australia during the book ‘Hallam Square’. I’ve long wanted to tell his story.
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Keara Michaels doesn’t want to leave her family in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, where she works for the Mullanes, then later across the sea to Australia. And Theo Mullane, the man who loves her, is married with an ailing baby son, so cannot follow her as he longs to. Mark Gibson left Lancashire to avoid marriage, but found gold-prospecting in Australia a dangerous pursuit. When he settles in a country town, his gentle young wife dies in childbirth and his father-in-law kidnaps the baby. So Mark runs away again, this time to Western Australia, where he employs Keara in his country inn. But danger threatens them all, even Keara’s sisters in Ireland. Theo is eventually free to come looking for the woman he loves, and Mark at last confronts his past. |
| Read Chapter 1 |
| NB ‘Twopenny Rainbows’, the sequel to ‘A Pennyworth of Sunshine’, was published in February 2004 in hardback, and will appear in 2004 in paperback. |
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‘A Pennyworth of Sunshine’ is available for sale in all Commonwealth countries and if your local bookshop doesn't stock it, you can ask them to order it for you. When buying on line, in Australia you can obtain Anna's books from the Australian Online Bookshop or elsewhere in the world, buy from Amazon UK. |
| A Pennyworth of Sunshine © Anna Jacobs 2003 ISBN hardback 0 340 82135 3 paperback 0 340 82134 5 |