The Desert Crop - Couverture souple

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552141569 ISBN 13 : 9780552141567

Editeur : Corgi, 1998

Synopsis

Catherine Cookson once again uses her gifts as a storyteller to follow the fortunes of Moira Conelly and a family conflict.

A propos du livre

À propos 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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Money is tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s so when Hector Stewart announces that he is to marry wealthy Moira Conelly, it is his son Daniel who guesses the real reason for the union.

However, Moira has not been entirely honest about her background or finances. She certainly expects to become wealthy, although that depends on the generosity of an aunt whose money she has been promised. But when her aunt dies some years later, to Moira's dismay she is not the one to benefit. The effects of this bombshell are felt throughout the Stewart family, now without the means by which the farm could have prospered. Daniel, deprived of an opportunity to better himself, can see no escape, until a family tragedy opens up the way for him to expand his horizons and find the love and happiness he thought unattainable...

This powerful novel of family conflict once again demonstrates why Catherine Cookson is Britain's best-loved storyteller.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552141569
• ISBN 13: 9780552141567
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible