Katie Mulholland

Some women are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland ...At 15, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosires, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money to maintain three carriages if she wanted to, and she was on her way to see Bernard Rosier under very different circumstances. There was no pride in Katie Mulholland's heart, however, only fear, for half of Tyneside still talked about the way she had flouted convention, and sniggered about the way she had made her money. So she had decided that her only hope was to climb above them, and that she would conquer her fear with power ...

‘It’s splendiferous pulp, the kind that you just can’t put down. And the prose is as plump as Miss Cookson’s imagination.’ -- Kirkus Reviews

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer – her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 – her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her she became the United Kingdom's most widely read novelist, with sales topping 100 million, while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. Catherine Cookson died at the age of 91 at her home in Newcastle, although her novels, many written from her sickbed, continued to be published posthumously until 2002. Susan Jameson is an English actress who is best known for her television work. Her roles include Myra Booth in Coronation Street, Kate in Take Three Girls and Jessie Seaton in When the Boat Comes In. She played Emma Lambe in the third series of All in Good Faith, and John Duttine's second wife in the BBC drama To Serve Them All My Days. She also starred in a children's comedy series, Bad Boyes, in which she played the eponymous lead character's mother. In 2009, she was one of five actresses to portray Queen Elizabeth II in Channel 4's series The Queen. Jameson is also known as an audiobook narrator, especially of Catherine Cookson novels.

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