The Dwelling Place by Catherine Cookson
When 15-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her 9 siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse.
"Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues..In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory" -- Helen Dunmore The Times
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 | 9780552140669 |
| ISBN 10 | 055214066X |
| Title | The Dwelling Place |
| Author | Catherine Cookson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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