The Mallen Girl - Hardcover

Cookson, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786221402 ISBN 13: 9780786221400

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it€”she was becoming more and more deaf. Yet living in her silent world, she was proected from the knowledge which might otherwise have destroyed her€”the secret of her own origins.

About this title

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: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786221402
• ISBN 13: 9780786221400
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 447