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Our Kate: An Autobiographical Memoir by Catherine Cookson
Category: Biography
Catherine Cookson is known and loved for her vibrant and earthy novels set in and around the North-East of England, past and present. Her autobiography makes plain how it is she knows her background and her characters so well. The Our Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mother, around wh ...Show more
Pure as the Lily by Catherine Cookson
Category: Fiction
Mary Walton is the apple of her father's eye; his only comfort during the dark years of the Depression when he is faced with both unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife. His only hope is that Mary will one day find a way to escape the grinding poverty of the Tyneside slums. But when a secret is reve ...Show more
Rosie of the River by Cookson, Catherine
Category: Fiction
Fred Carpenter and his wife Sally embark on a holiday that threatens to be ruined by a number of things, both nautical and canine included. When they meet fifteen-year-old Rosie, her story inspires their sympathy, and they support her when she decides to better her life. Although, fictional, Rosie of th ...Show more
Rosie of the River by Catherine Cookson
Category: Fiction
Sally Carpenter can't swim and doesn't like boats, so when her husband Fred announces that he has booked them a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads she's far from enthusiastic. Together with their beloved bull-terrier Bill they set off, only to lurch from one mishap to another. Drowning their sorro ...Show more
The Blind Years by Catherine Cookson; Susan Jameson (Read by)
Category: Audio
Bridget Gether's parents were killed in the wartime blitz, so she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in the Northumbrian countryside, since she was a child.Unaware that she had been manipulated into agreeing to marry their son, Laurence, an encounter with Bruce Dickens ...Show more