The Round Tower

Catherine Cookson

ISBN 10: 055214620X / ISBN 13: 9780552146203

Verlag: Transworld Publishers, 1998

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Titel: The Round Tower

Verlag: Transworld Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 1998

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: new

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Winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Fiction.

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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.