The Whip - Hardcover

Cookson, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434142743 ISBN 13: 9780434142743

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1983

Synopsis

Emma inherited her father's skill with the whips and knives which he used in his act in an early-Victorian travelling show. This strange legacy was to play a significant part in shaping Emma's destiny after she'd been orphaned at seven and sent to live with an unknown grandmother in County Durham.

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From the Back Cover:

Someone had once told Emma Molinero that she was made for trouble, and certainly it had dogged her steps from childhood onwards. Her earliest memories were of life with one of the many travelling shows - part fair and part circus - that toured the shires at the dawn of the Victorian era. But at the age of seven she found herself an orphan who, in accordance with her Spanish father's dying wishes, must now leave the warm and friendly community to live with an unknown English grandmother far to the north in County Durham. With her she took the whips and knives used with such dexterity by her father for his act and for which she had an inherited skill: a strange legacy that would play a significant part in shaping Emma's destiny.

Spanning the middle decades of the nineteenth century The Whip is one of Catherine Cookson's most powerful novels, rich in character and incident and featuring Emma as one of her most endearing heroines.

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: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0434142743
• ISBN 13: 9780434142743
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400