The Invitation - Softcover

Cookson, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451057899 ISBN 13: 9780451057891

Publisher: Signet, 1974

Synopsis

His shameful secret. From the moment they met Rod's virile good looks and vitality totally enthralled Maggie, while his dynamic business success introduced her to a world of wealth and luxury beyond her wildest dreams. But now Maggie had discovered the shameful secret in her husband's life - a secret that made a mockery of her feelings and their marriage. And now she had to find the strength to survive the break up of that marriage and the breaking of her heart, and to learn to live and love again.

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About the Author

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 best-selling 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0451057899
• ISBN 13: 9780451057891
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 247