Catherine Cookson (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Kathleen Jones | knygos.lt

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Catherine Cookson was an illegitimate child brought up in one of the poorest places in the western world. She left school at 13 to become a domestic servant and was later employed in a workhouse laundry. Yet she became one of the best-selling novelists of all time and one of the richest women in Britain. Her story is as fascinating as any of her novels, with a plot that includes abandonment, abuse, alcoholism, extreme poverty, and a love affair that almost wrecked Catherine's life and her marriage. She survived it all because she was driven by an ambition so strong it overcame everything to make her a household name.
Kathleen Jones is a Sunday Times best-selling biographer and novelist. Drawing on tapes recorded by Catherine Cookson herself, personal testimony and original research, Kathleen tells the story of Catherine Cookson's life and goes on a quest to find her absent father - the enigmatic 'Alexander Davies'.