Rag Nymph: A Novel - Couverture souple

Cookson, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451660065 ISBN 13 : 9781451660067

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Cookson Catherine

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

In the heat of a late June afternoon in 1854, abandoned by a panic-stricken mother in an all-too-obvious flight from the law, Millie Forester burst into Aggie Winkowski's life like a bolt from the blue. Aggie, who was known hereabouts as 'Raggie Aggie', for trading in rags and old clothes was her long-established business, knew well enough the dangers for such a strikingly pretty girl left alone in this rough and vice-ridden quarter and could see nothing for it other than to take her in.

But what began as compassionate expediency led to the establishment of a new relationship that would grow and deepen, moulding Millie's destiny and giving new meaning to the life of Aggie Winkowski.

Millie Forester's advance through the coming years to the threshold of womanhood is the core of The Rag Nymph, as gripping and socially concerned an historical novel as Catherine Cookson has ever written. Her superb skills of narrative and characterization provide a spectrum of the good and evil of the Victorian era, frankly confronting the terrible menace of child corruption, which remains a constant issue in our own time.

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1451660065
• ISBN 13: 9781451660067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352