The Bondage of Love

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Only after returning from his well-attended funeral did Fiona Bailey realise just how much she would miss Davey Love. Then! when one of Fiona's children! Willie! acquired a new friend! Sammy! it was he and his father Davey who! by one means or another! were able to make a special contribution to the lives and fortunes of the Bailey family. Zusammenfassung Only after returning from his well-attended funeral did Fiona Bailey realise just how much she would miss Davey Love.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust, Catherine Cookson
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1998
• EAN: 9780552145336
• ISBN: 978-0-552-14533-6
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 178 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)