Synopsis
The first biography of Catherine Cookson to be written with her co-operation. Dudgeon tells the story of the ninety year old authoress through the heroines of her books - all of whom reflect some part of her personality, and particularly her harsh early life in Newcastle.
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Piers Dudgeon worked for ten years as a publisher in London before starting his own company and publishing a number of bestsellers with authors as diverse as Daphne du Maurier, John Fowles, Edward de Bono, Peter Ackroyd and Susan Hill. In the 1980s he worked with Catherine Cookson on her memoir, Catherine Cookson Country. Since 1989 he has worked as a journalist and written nine works of non-fiction. In 1993 he moved with his wife and three children to a village on the North Yorkshire moors, where he is setting up a residential school for writers and artists.
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