The Black Candle by Catherine Cookson
Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world. Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running them as confidently as any man. Yet the path destiny required her to follow was not an easy one, as she would later find out.
"'Robust and readable..Catherine Cookson soars above the sentimentality of her rivals'" Mail on Sunday
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552135764 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552135763 |
| Title | The Black Candle |
| Author | Catherine Cookson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 608 |
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