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Catherine Cookson: The Biography

Catherine Cookson: The Biography

Kathleen Jones

Born in 1906 as the illegitimate daughter of a domestic servant, Cookson's childhood was marred by violence, alcoholism, shame and guilt. Despite her literary success she was haunted by the failure of her relationship with her mother, and riven by religious doubts. Her legendary generosity is contrasted with a darker picture of her life.
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Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a servant, Catherine Cookson was brought up in Tyneside in one of the poorest communities of the western world. This explores how Cookson determined to escape her situation and did so in a career which produced 97 novels, all still in print. Kathleen Jones has delved into early drafts of Cookson's own autobiography, and has also used as background hours of privately taped conversation in which Cookson discusses much that she chose to keep secret in her own lifetime: her tortured feelings for her mother, her own mental torment and terrors, and her intense and devastating relationship with Nan Smith, who almost succeeded in wrecking Catherine's marriage to Tom.

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Title - Catherine Cookson: The Biography

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Author - Kathleen Jones

ISBN 13 - 9780751530339

Imprint - Time Warner Paperbacks

Publisher - Little, Brown Book Group

Date Published - 06/04/2000

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 108 x 178 x mm

Weight - 275 g

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