Catherine Cookson Vintage Romance Paperback Novels Signet and Bantam Lot of 4

Description: About Catherine Cookson. *Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. Catherine 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 best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular contemporary woman novelist. She received an OBE in 1985, was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997.For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.*Source: goodreads Books in the Lot of 4 Fiction - Romance - Historical Fiction The Menagerie | 4.05 goodreads The Menagerie by Catherine Cookson is a captivating read for those who appreciate complex family dynamics, emotional depth, and the resilience of strong women, as it dives into the intricate lives of the Broadhurst family, exploring themes of love, loyalty, and the power of female strength in the face of adversity. Hannah Massey | 4.1 goodreadsProud and canny, ignorant and intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may be only a working-class household in County Durham, but within its walls her iron will governs a predominantly male family and her word is unchallengeable law. Now, in late middle age, her ambition is yet to be satisfied. She wants to see her brood living in the house where she was in service as a young girl. The Unbaited Trap | 4.1 goodreadsohn Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past. Then he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little. Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not. She was warm, and compassionate, and generous. ... The Mallen Girl | 4.0 goodreadsEven as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming deaf. Yet living in an almost silent world protected her from what could be... Book previously owned and read by Thelma Weyher. Thelma was an avid romance novel reader as evidence points to her reading over 2,000 books between 1930 and 2008. Thelma was born in Montana, spent most of her life on a farm in Wisconsin, then and passed as a resident of California. Thelma's collection of romance novels indicates a date when read and most have a rating and her name.

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