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The final novel in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson Family series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. It is 1860 in Bilsden, the Lancashire mill town, and Frederick Hallam is dying. But first he makes secret plans to smooth the future path for his beloved wife Annie. Her sister, Joanie...

Jesper Lier, 20, ist voller Erwartungen nach Berlin gekommen: Er hofft auf ein aufregendes Leben in der Stadt der Verheißungen und auf einen fulminanten Start als Schriftsteller. Stattdessen haust er in einem Kellerloch am Prenzlauer Berg, sein Roman "Der Leidensgenosse" ist zu einem Monstrum angeschwollen, und seine Aversion gegen die Gesellschaft und die sich selbst feiernde Stadt hat ihn zum Einzelgänger gemacht. Doch aus der reißen ihn seine Freunde Gustav und Frank. Eine verrückte Woche und eine rauschhafte Odyssee durch Berlin beginnen.

When Jennet and Titus Eastwood are forced to move from their idyllic cottage into the centre of Blackburn to find work in the cotton mills, their lives are changed in ways they could never have imagined, and their new home on Paradise Lane is anything but. Then Titus is arrested and sent to prison for attending a Reform meeting. Jennet is left to fend for herself, and things go from bad to worse as she finds herself pregnant and alone - with another man's child.

Rhian Grey left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack, a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner. When Rhian returns to Sweyn’s Eye, it is to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty, by the devastation of the Great War, a town whose workers' lives are governed by fear. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind, Rhian must decide where her own future lies.