Farewell to Lancashire [Paperback] Jacobs, Anna

Emma Grimes is leaving behind everything she knows: the cotton mills, the soot-stained streets, and a life that never quite fit. When scandal forces her to flee Lancashire in the 1860s, she boards a ship to Australia with nothing but her wits and a fierce determination to start over. But the journey is brutal, the destination uncertain, and the past has a way of following you across oceans. Anna Jacobs writes historical sagas with grit and heart — her characters earn their happy endings through hardship, not luck. This is emigrant fiction that doesn't romanticize the voyage or the struggle, just the courage it took to keep going. For readers who love sweeping family dramas set against the backdrop of industrial England and colonial Australia, or anyone who's ever dreamed of leaving it all behind.