Our Lizzie

A woman who exchanges her home life for a difficult marriage in the years before WWI must find the courage to find true happiness in this historical saga.

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit. At twelve, she loses her father and her happy family life ends as her mother grows to resent her. Then circumstances push Lizzie into an early marriage, where she finds her mother's petty cruelties replaced by her husband's frequent beatings.

But she is a survivor. When World War I breaks out, Lizzie's husband is forced to join up and she seizes the opportunity to run away. She finds independence and friendship in a munitions factory—plus the promise of a new love. But as war ends, the shadow of her husband looms again. Can she break free of him and find happiness?

A vivid and engrossing saga set in Lancashire in the early twentieth century, Our Lizzie is absorbing novel from Anna Jacobs, who has once again created characters so real you'll laugh and weep with them.