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Catherine Cookson's story is as dramatic as any of her best-selling novels. Born in 1906, the illegitimate daughter of a servant, she was brought up in the slums of Tyneside. Her childhood was marred by violence, abuse, alcoholism and shame. Determined to escape her situation Catherine made her way out of the poverty trap by "writing it all out". Her novels became a new genre and her legendary success is conrasted here with a fuller, darker picture of her life.
About: 'An honest and sympathetic account which leaves the reader even more admiring of Cookson's remarkable achievements' - PUBLISHING NEWS 'A dramatic and unsettling story' - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH In writing this biography, many of Catherine Cookson's friends have been willing to talk to the author.
About: Few authors can have had a life as traumatic as Dame Catherine Cookson.
About: Few authors have had a life as traumatic as Dame Catherine Cookson.
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