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Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Jessie
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'Jessie Burton is lively and intelligent and she wants more than the respectable life in service her mother has long planned for her. And times are changing: railways are being built across the land, bringing new freedom and possibilities.

Jessie tastes that freedom when she meets Jared Wilde, an ambitious young navvy newly arrived in Yorkshire. The attraction between them is overwhelming. He introduces her to the primitive, colorful shanty towns that spring up around the railway works. But in spite of the hardness of life there, she finds happiness with Jared. Until another navvy becomes determined to destroy their future together...' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Sound recording available.
  • Dedication: To Janet Woods

    Only fellow writers and good friends understand this addiction called writing - and you're both of those!

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Coronet ,
      2000 .
      Extent: 453p.
      ISBN: 0340692995 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

An Interview with Sherry-Anne Jacobs Sue King-Smith , Ian Irvine (interviewer), 1998 single work interview
— Appears in: The Animist , July 1 vol. 2 no. 1998;
An Interview with Sherry-Anne Jacobs Sue King-Smith , Ian Irvine (interviewer), 1998 single work interview
— Appears in: The Animist , July 1 vol. 2 no. 1998;
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
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