Anna Jacobs

Anna Jacobs (born 1941) is a British-Australian novelist, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 1962 and emigrated to Australia in 1973, where she now lives in Western Australia. A prolific writer of historical and contemporary family sagas — including the Wiltshire Girls, Peppercorn Street and Backshaw Moss series — she has published over one hundred novels and also writes fantasy under the pen name Shannah Jay.