Kate Hannigan's Girl - Hardcover

Cookson, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593042298 ISBN 13: 9780593042298

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2000

Synopsis

It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter, Annie as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be set for the Prince family - but there is a serpent in every Eden, and spiteful rumours about Kate's earlier life seem to dog her steps, and those of Annie, an insidious threat that revives memories of the poverty and narrowness of life in the Fifteen Streets district they have so recently left behind. nnie will be faced with some of the problems that earlier beset her mother- religious prejudics and a choice between two different ways of life - the comfortable middle class existence or one offfering uncertain prospects. s Kate Hannigan did, her daughter must find the strength and maturity to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her.

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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.

From the Back Cover

Kate Hannigan, Catherine Cookson's first published novel, has been in print since it first appeared in 1950. Now fifty years later, here is its sequel, Kate Hannigan's Girl.

It is the early 1920s and Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household. Everything seems to be set fair for the Prince family - but there is a serpent in every Eden, and spiteful rumours about Kate's past seem to dog her steps, and those of Annie, an insidious threat that revives memories of the poverty and narrowness of life in the Fifteen Streets district they have so recently left behind them.

Annie will be faced with some of the problems that earlier beset her mother: religious prejudice and a choice between two different ways of life - the comfortable middle-class existence offered by Brian Stannard and the uncertain prospects of Terence Macbane, a brilliant mathematician, a man who springs from the underprivileged world that Annie knew as a child.

As Kate Hannigan did, her daughter Annie must find the strength and eventual maturity that will enable her to overcome the troubles that threaten to engulf her.

In this, Catherine Cookson's one hundredth published book, set in her beloved north-east, she reveals all her talents as a storyteller to capture the conflicts of class and religion and of growing up in a rapidly changing society.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593042298
• ISBN 13: 9780593042298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288