The Slow Awakening - Hardcover

The Slow Awakening Edition: Reprint

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688031366 ISBN 13: 9780688031367

Publisher: Morrow, 1977

Synopsis

Aged 14, Kirsten was sold to a tinker who raped her and held her captive until the day they were separated by a storm. Rescued from the flood, she gave birth just as the mistress of a great house nearby was told that her newborn son was dead. The two met and a secret bargain was struck.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In the mid-1850s life for an orphan was grim, as Kirsten MacGregor discovered when her parents died suddenly on a journey to Northumberland, leaving her penniless and alone in the hands of a cruel baby farmer.

Somehow, Kirsten survived her terrible childhood - only to be sold, at the age of fourteen, to a travelling tinker - a vicious master who raped her and held her captive until the fateful day they were separated during a storm. Rescued from the flood by the Flynn family, she gave birth to a child as the waters raged about her - at the same time Florence, mistress of the great house nearby, was told that her newborn son was dead. The two women entered into a secret bargain, an arrangement that was to change Kirsten's fortune - and place her in the middle of a bitter feud between two families.

The Slow Awakening is a powerful novel, originally published under the pseudonym of Catherine Marchant, by Catherine Cookson, whose many bestselling novels have established her as the best-loved of contemporary women writers.

About the Author

Catherine Cookson
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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morrow
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0688031366
• ISBN 13: 9780688031367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 282