GOLDEN STRAW THE by Catheri Cookson

GOLDEN STRAW THE by Catheri Cookson

A historical novel following YEAR OF THE VIRGINS and spanning the years from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. It tells the story of a milliner who falls in love with a hotel guest whilst on holiday in Nice. The relationship is to bring nothing but trouble to her and will affect the whole family for generations to come.

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	9780593021354
ISBN 10	0593021355
Title	GOLDEN STRAW THE
Author	Catheri Cookson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	1993-10-06
Number of pages	496
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