The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson - Rilegato

Dudgeon, Piers

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ISBN 10: 0755314972 ISBN 13: 9780755314973

Casa editrice: Headline Book Pub Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Born to an impoverished young Tyneside woman in 1906, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At the age of 27, she was able to buy a house of her own—a hopeful sign that the escape from her past was complete. In fact, her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, she was brought to the brink of suicide and forced to confront the tragedies of her life. The author has known Catherine Cookson for many years and was given full cooperation on this biography by the novelist and her husband Tom, who provided many of the photographs for the book. Originally published in 1997, it tells the story of her long and eventful life through the heroines in her books.

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Descrizione del libro

Revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Catherine Cookson biography to mark the centenary of her birth

L'autore

Piers Dudgeon is a writer, editor and photographer. Born in 1949, he worked for ten years as a publisher in London and then started his own company, publishing a number of bestsellers with authors as diverse as Daphne du Maurier, John Fowles, Edward de Bono, Shirley Conran and Susan Hill. Since 1989 he has worked as a journalist and written several works of non-fiction.

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• Editore: Headline Book Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0755314972
• ISBN 13: 9780755314973
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302