Catherine Cookson - Böcker

Agnes Conway är den 22-åriga föreståndaren för faderns tobaksbutiker. Fadern verkar bekymmerslös och oansvarig, men det finns mörka hemligheter i hans förflutna som till slut kommer till ytan. Agnes är en stark ung kvinna som lyckas behålla sitt g...

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Prästdottern och pojkflickan Nancy Ann bor i en by med mörka hemligheter. En dag får hon syn på en främmande pojke nere vid floden. Kan det vara sonen som godsherrens drunknade yngre bror sägs ha med en tjänsteflicka och som sägs hållas gömd på vi...

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Överklassflickan Annabella är övertygad om att hon är dotter till en disponent och har aldrig behövt arbeta en sekund i sitt liv. Hon har aldrig behövt hantera några motgångar eller riskerat att svälta. En dag kastas hon ut i en oviss tillvaro när...

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Tragedi drabbar Tilly Trotter ännu en gång, när hennes partner Mark Sopwith dör. Tilly är dessutom gravid, men får ingen hjälp från varken Marks släkt eller resten av byns invånare, då hon aldrig gift sig med Mark och då alltså bär på ett illegiti...

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Tilly Trotter är inte som alla andra flickor i byn. Både hennes skönhet, starka vilja och envishet sticker ut och detta möts av både beundran och avundsjuka från andra. Tilly saknar inte uppvaktning från män, men den enda man hon har ögonen för är...

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Ända sedan hon var liten har Barbara varit vacker, med korpsvart hår och ett häftigt temperament. Men efter en olycka förmörkas hennes liv när hon börjar förlora hörseln och tvingas leva i tystnad. Tystnaden skyddar henne dock också från en vetska...

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Är Tilly Trotter modig nog att släppa in kärleken på nytt? Tilly återvänder till sina hemtrakter på engelska landsbygden efter en lång tid i Texas, efter att hennes man Matthew gått bort. Det blir inte ett helt lätt återseende med hennes barndoms ...

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The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed ...

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'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 Just two years after the death of their mother, Hector ...

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Jurisprudence regarding the "free exercise of religion" clause of the U.S. Constitution is in a state of confusion. A series of rapid changes in the standard used by the Supreme Court to determine when a statute impermissibly restricts free exerci...

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Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton, a professional soldier, would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely intervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie from the oldest of perils for a young girl, and th...

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Fanny McBride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her fifties, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. All but one of her sons and daughters had married and ...

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Some wonen are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland. At fifteen, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosires, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough...

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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 ...

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It is the early 1920s and Kate Hannigan is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie, as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be going well for the Prince family, but soon ...

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Volume 2 opens with a seventeen-year-old Mary Ann struggling with the painful business of growing up as her first love, Corny Boyle, leaves for America. It follows her through her eventual marriage to Corny, and the joys and trials of being a wife...

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Dr Rodney Prince has never seen a girl look more out of place in the grime of the Fifteen Streets than Kate Hannigan. Her beauty and intelligence far outshine that of his hard, brittle, calculating wife. And as their paths continue to cross, Rodne...

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Cumbria, 1870s. Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her b...

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Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But the beautiful young girl captures the eye of her employer's evil son, who rapes her and leaves her pregnant. Out for themselves, the family ...

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Yorkshire, 1880s At nineteen years old, Bridget Dean Mordaunt inherits her father's candle and blacking factories. Determined to restore the businesses to their former glory, by the time she turns twenty-three she is running them as confidently as...

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When Ellen Jebeau's husband dies in 1926, he leaves behind a legacy of debt and empty dreams. However, Ellen is determined that her son Joseph should have everything in life that she never did, and will stop at nothing to give it to him. Ellen and...

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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 t...

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When Millie's mother abandons her one late afternoon in 1854, fate brings the seven-year-old to Aggie's door - and life will never be the same for either of them. Known locally as 'Raggie Aggie' for her business of trading rags and old clothes, th...

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Born into grinding poverty, young Freddie Musgrave relies on his wits to survive and help feed his family. He earns a few shillings by navigating his little boat across the swift-flowing waters of the Tyne, running messages and smuggling goods bet...

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_______________________ "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) County Durham, 1860s. Born to a...

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Rosie finds it hard to cope with her eldest sister's over-possessive nature. Since the death of their mother Beatrice has been insufferably dominating, taking over the running of the house and ruling their father and servants with an iron hand. Sh...

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'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 Everyone, including her family, thought Ward Gibson wou...

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Willington Place, London, 1879. In London's bustling streets, business is booming for Mabel Arkwright's hat shop. But as her health declines, she must entrust Emily Pearson, her capable and beloved employee, with more responsibility. After Mabel's...

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'Catherine Cookson soars above her rivals' Mail on Sunday 'Her characters have the grit of real life' Sunday Times 'Queen of raw family romances' Telegraph After making his money as a respected manufacturer of an array of shoes, Samuel Fairbrother...

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CATHERINE COOKSON'S NOVELS HAVE SOLD OVER 100 MILLION COPIES -------- Cock Shield Farm, 1881 After Molly Geary finds herself pregnant with landowner Angus McBain's child, she is left distraught and ruined. Dishonoured by being the secret mistress ...

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