Mallen Girl - Couverture souple

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553139339 ISBN 13 : 9780553139334

Editeur : Bantam Books, 1981

Synopsis

Book by Cookson Catherine

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

They said the Mallen wickedness was depicted by the white streak in black hair. Through the generations, bad luck and misfortune has befallen each and every member of the Mallen family. It is said that they are cursed by the dramatic white streak in their jet-black hair.

Stunningly beautiful and yet desperately unhappy, Barbara does not have the visible streak to identify her as a Mallen. But she knows that the Mallen wickedness is inside her and she is terrified by what it might lead her to do. Her fears are not unfounded.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books
• Date d'édition: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0553139339
• ISBN 13: 9780553139334
• Reliure: Broché