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Dame Catherine Ann Cookson (née McMullen; 20 June 1906 – 11 June 1998), was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while she retained a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Shields (historically part of County Durham), North East England, the setting for her novels. With 104 titles written in her own name or two other pen names, she is one of the most prolific British novelists.
Matilda 35 returns to English estate as widowed owner. She was mistress to Mark, bore him son Will, near blind, wed Mark's son Matthew. Adopted Mexican Josefina is not Matt's...
Fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family, had always run when she might have walked, and it was as she was running away from a sight...
Spanning the years from the 1880s to World War II, the epic tale of Emily Ratcliffe chronicles the dark destiny that follows the painful choices she made as a girl,...
Beatrice Steel, eldest daughter of the formidable Simon Steel, has always been possessive abut her family home, Pine Hurst. She becomes intolerably domineering after her mother's death, ruling over her...
Only after returning from his well-attended funeral did Fiona Bailey realise just how much she would miss Davey Love. Despite her initial doubts and prejudices about this rough-hewn Irishman, towards...
Marrying Moira in the hopes that her expected inheritance will save the family farm, widower Hector sees his family fall apart when the inheritance falls through, a situation that is...