The Upstart - Couverture rigide

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684843153 ISBN 13 : 9780684843155

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Cookson Catherine

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence. And so he bought himself a thirty-four-roomed mansion situated on the outskirts of Fellburn.

With the house came Maitland, the butler, who at once made plain his belief that Samuel, far from the gentleman his predecessor had been, was no more than an upstart. So began a clash of wills and an uneasy truce between master and man.

As the years went by and the century turned, Samuel Fairbrother saw his children, one by one, leave the big house to make lives of their own - all except his eldest daughter Janet. It was Janet who, by means of a legacy, was able to shape the destiny of her father's scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he had believed impossible.

Biographie de l'auteur

Catherine Cookson lived in Northumberland, England, the setting of many of her international bestsellers. Born in Tyne Dock, she was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished woman, Kate, whom she was raised to believe was her older sister. She began to work in the civil service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married a local grammar school master.
Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer, in 1968 her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award, her readership quickly spread worldwide, and her many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular contemporary authors. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998, having completed 104 works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684843153
• ISBN 13: 9780684843155
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible