Fenwick Houses - Couverture souple

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552083534 ISBN 13 : 9780552083539

Editeur : Bantam Press, 1983

Synopsis

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 riverbank near her home and she found herself changed beyond recall.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Quatrième de couverture

High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. Here, during the hazardous years of the Depression, lived Christine Winter, a girl blessed - or cursed - with that indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession.

Three men dominated her life: her brother Ronnie; Sam, whose devotion was deep and loyal; and Don Dowling, curel and tormented, who made it his life's ambition to possess her. To Ronnie and Sam she was joined by a thread of harmony; but Don was the needle through which the thread was drawn, and the point was sharp and deadly...

But then, one day, a stranger came to the river bank and Christine found herself changed beyond recall.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552083534
• ISBN 13: 9780552083539
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible