The Dwelling Place
$30.49
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2016
Summary
A classic story of a bitter struggle against hardship by the 100-million copy bestselling Catherine Cookson - the queen of saga - reissued in a fresh, gorgeous new package for today’s readers.
County Durham, 1830s
When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine brothers and sisters by herself. Although desperately poor, strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for them all, their ow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552173988 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552173983 |
| Author: | Catherine Cookson |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 26mm |
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Catherine Cookson is an icon; without her influence, I and many other authors would not have followed in her footsteps.
Catherine Cookson is an icon; without her influence, I and many other authors would not have followed in her footsteps. * Val Wood *
Queen of raw family romances * Telegraph *
Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues … In the specialised world of women’s popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory * Helen Dunmore, The Times *
Catherine Cookson soars above her rivals * Mail on Sunday *
About The Author
Catherine Cookson
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 many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. 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. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.
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