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Catherine Cookson

Child of the Tyne

Kathleen Jones

£15.99

Catherine Cookson was an illegitimate child brought up in one of the poorest places in the western world. She left school at 13 to become a domestic servant and was later employed in a workhouse laundry. Yet she became one of the best selling novelists of all time and one of the richest women in Britain.

Her story is as fascinating as any of her novels, with a plot that includes abandonment, abuse, alcoholism, extreme poverty, and a love affair that almost wrecked Catherine’s life and her marriage. She survived it all because she was driven by an ambition so strong it overcame everything to make her a household name.

publisher:

The Book Mill

pages:

418p

Publication Date:

2018 October

format:

Paperback; 230 x 155mm

ISBN:

9780993204593

illustrations:

Some black and white photographs