Hannah Massey / The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson

Hannah Massey / The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson

HANNAH MASSEYProud and canny, ignorant and intensely ambitious, Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Others, like the O'Briens - and especially John O'Brien - fought grimly for a world they were only rarely allowed to glimpse.

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	9780552147040
ISBN 10	0552147044
Title	Hannah Massey / The Fifteen Streets
Author	Catherine Cookson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	1996-10-03
Number of pages	640
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