Simple Soul And Other Stories - Hardcover

Cookson, Catherine

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9780593041222: Simple Soul And Other Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593041224 ISBN 13: 9780593041222
Publisher: Corgi, 2002

Synopsis

This warm-hearted collection of stories are the last unpublished works of fiction written by Catherine Cookson.

This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson’s countless readers -- the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920s to the present day.

In the title story, a disillusioned husband decides to call on an office colleague he has always slightly despised, and finds himself having to re-evaluate his own family relationships in the light of what he discovers in the other’s home. In the three stories that make up The Forbidden Word, the first set in the 1920s, the second in the 1950s, and the third in the 1980s, Catherine Cookson traces the changes in attitudes to marriage and pregnancy that have taken place in the last eighty years.

In other stories, a shy bachelor begins to make friends for the first time in his life among the people who, like himself, have taken refuge from the Blitz in the London Underground; and a much put-upon young woman makes up her mind to escape from her family’s domestic exploitation of her. The reader catches a glimpse behind the scenes in a large department store, and learns of the havoc that a husband’s passion for cricket can cause.

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About the Author

Catherine Cookson, the illegitimate daughter of a woman whom she believed to be her older sister, began her working life in domestic service. She eventually married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. The Round Tower won an award for the best regional novel of 1968. It was followed by many more, which established her as one of the most popular of English novelists.

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This warm-hearted collection of stories are the last unpublished works of fiction written by Catherine Cookson.

This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson?s countless readers -- the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920s to the present day.

In the title story, a disillusioned husband decides to call on an office colleague he has always slightly despised, and finds himself having to re-evaluate his own family relationships in the light of what he discovers in the other?s home. In the three stories that make up The Forbidden Word, the first set in the 1920s, the second in the 1950s, and the third in the 1980s, Catherine Cookson traces the changes in attitudes to marriage and pregnancy that have taken place in the last eighty years.

In other stories, a shy bachelor begins to make friends for the first time in his life among the people who, like himself, have taken refuge from the Blitz in the London Underground; and a much put-upon young woman makes up her mind to escape from her family?s domestic exploitation of her. The reader catches a glimpse behind the scenes in a large department store, and learns of the havoc that a husband?s passion for cricket can cause.

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Publisher
Corgi
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0593041224
ISBN 13 
9780593041222
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222
Rating
  • 3.93 out of 5 stars
    118 ratings by Goodreads

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