This is Catherine Cookson at its best. Tilly is a 15 year old orphan at the beginning of the story. She is living with her grandparents and in love with her farmer neighbour yet unaware of the secret that binds him to her family. But as Tilly begins her journey of self awareness, she comes up aga...
When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie ...
This book covers the period 18886 to 1921, describing the Gibson’s family saga.The plot describes the lives of three generations by showing how people lived by the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century with a special emphasis on World War I.“The Maltese Angel”, who gives the ...
Beatrice Steel, eldest daughter of Simon Steel, is and always has been and always will be obsessed about her family home. Since her mother died, she has been mistress of the manse and she enjoys that position well. Her sisters, Helen and Marion, are engaged to be wed. The youngest sister, Rosi...
Whereas this cannot claim to fall into the "best of Catherine Cookson" category, it was entertaining nevertheless. Meet Martha Mary. It is the 1880s and for the last six years, this twenty year gal has been managing and estate for her entire family. The family consists of a dad that is spendin...
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A TV movie was made based on this book and is available at You Tube From IMDb:Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an impoverished aristocrat. Lionel, howeve...
Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a legacy in which their youngest son, Donald, must choose between the values of the past and present. 30,000 first printing.
With his family farm on the brink of financial ruin, widower Hector Stewart marries Moira Conelly, a woman expected to come into a generous inheritance. But when Moira is cheated out of the inheritance things take a turn for the worse and the family falls apart. Then a senseless act of violence o...
The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Making plain her disapproval of Joe's familiarity with the servants, questioning the donation of food to striking miners' families ...
A novel set in a mining town featuring a girl blessed - or cursed - with the indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession. Three men dominated her life, until one day a stranger, came to the river bank near her home and she found herself changed beyond recall.
Mary Walton was the apple of her da's eye. For long now he had been out of work, and Mary was his only comfort during those dark years of the Depression, when unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife gnawed away at his self-respect. Once he was a man who had held his head high with Geordie pr...
@Publisher: OXFORD BOOKWORMS@Time of reading 12/24 60 min @7 word summary Boy dog friend die parent go camping @Discussion questionDo you like camping?@My answerYes, I do. I did it while I was in Canada. I like outdoor, so that time was awesome for me, though my friends were surprised to me. I ca...
'You're a loser; you were born a loser.' Was that the whole truth about Charlie MacFell? Was he just the kind of nice chap who always takes the dirty end of the stick, lacking the inner strength to take a firm stand in life or love alike? In one of the most powerful and distinctive novels that th...
When the meal was finished, they lay on the grass, comfortably full, while they waited for the kettle to boil to do the washing up. They were lying facing the long valley. The sun had just dropped beyond a distant high peak and from its dying there gushed up a spray of orange, pink and mauve colo...
A week from today we will be together . . . forever, for ever and ever; living or dead, we’ll be together.’ Arnold Hedley held her thin hands tightly to his breast; his nondescript features glowed with love and happiness. He had waited so long for his superior to die and for Jane to throw off the...