Hannah Massey - Softcover

Cookson, Catherine

 
9780426163527: Hannah Massey

Synopsis

An omnibus edition of two stories from the author of THE GOLDEN STRAW and THE GAMBLING MAN. In HANNAH MASSEY, Hannah's favourite child returns from London with a devastating secret. In THE FIFTEEN STREETS, the O'Briens make the best of their lot to survive the tough Fifteen Streets.

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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.

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