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Salem Street is Book One of the Gibson Family Saga, a five part saga, set in the nineteenth century in industrial Lancashire, UK. Each book is complete in itself, but follows the lives of the same family. Salem Street is:
'Classic historical fiction with a charming heroine'
Booklist, USA
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Salem Street traces the early life of Annie Gibson, born on the fifteenth of May 1820, in the front bedroom of her parents' new house in Salem Street, Bilsden. When the story begins, Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his better 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 help 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 thinks her dreams are coming true. But suddenly everything turns upside down. Abandoned and pregnant, 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. |
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| The Gibson Family Saga continues with book two, High Street, book three, Ridge Hill, book four, Hallam Square and book five Spinners Lake. |
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Salem Street is published by Hodder & Stoughton UK in both hardback and paperback. It has been in print continuously since 1994. It was published by Readers Digest Condensed Books and is also available in large print. In Australia, buy from the Australian Online Bookshop or elsewhere in the world, buy from Amazon UK. |
| Salem Street © Anna Jacobs 1994 ISBN hardback 0 450 60309 1 paperback 0 340 60308 9 |