Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson - Hardcover

Piers Dudgeon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593051416 ISBN 13: 9780593051412

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2003

Synopsis

"Kate's Daughter" gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material only made available since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon, lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman. When it was known that "Kate's Daughter" was being written, close family made contact with the author to unburden themselves of material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive. People who knew her when she was a child and at every stage of her life also came forward to set the record straight. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were made available. What emerges is a documentary portrait, illustrated with contemporary photographs (many provided by her family and never seen before), shot through with a psychological dimension that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown and strung the very darkest veins of autobiography in her novels.

About this title

About the Author

Piers Dudgeon is an author and publisher. His books include <b>The Girl from Lean Lane</b>, the bestselling biography of Catherine Cookson, and <b>Josephine Cox: Child of the North</b>. He lives in Yorkshire.

From the Back Cover

Kate's Daughter gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material made available only since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon, author of the No. 1 bestseller The Girl from Leam Lane and editor of her own illustrated memoir, Catherine Cookson Country, lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman.

When it was known that Kate s Daughter was being written, family members made contact with the author to unburden themselves of material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive. People who knew her when she was a child and at every stage of her life also came forward to set the record straight. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were made available.

What emerges is a fresh documentary portrait, illustrated with striking contemporary photographs (many provided by her family and never seen before), shot through with a psychological dimension that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown and fed the very darkest veins of autobiography in her novels.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593051416
• ISBN 13: 9780593051412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192