The Moth - Couverture souple

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0552145459 ISBN 13 : 9780552145459

Editeur : Corgi Books, 1996

Synopsis

As a diversion from his job in his uncle's carpentry shop, newly arrived Robert Bradley began to explore the Durham countryside. It was on one of these walks that he met Millie, the ethereal girl-child whose odd ways and nocturnal wanderings had led her to be known locally as Thorman's Moth.

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the brooding north country hills, a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each other that the world branded a disgrace...

Agnes Thorman – the proud but forlorn mistress of a once-grand estate, whose society forbade her the man who was her equal in all but name...

Robert Bradley – a gifted craftsman, as visionary and challenging as the dawning new age. He had yet to seize his dream, which could destroy the woman he loved...

And Milicent Thorman – the strange, wise girl-child fated to play a part in the lovers’ unfolding destiny...

The lives of these three are woven into a compelling story with the masterly touch of Catherine Cookson.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corgi Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0552145459
• ISBN 13: 9780552145459
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible