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Katie Mulholland
Cookson Catheri
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Description for Katie Mulholland
Paperback. Set against a Tyneside background, this novel features an illegitimate girl who made a rich and powerful impression on all the men and women around her, forging an empire for herself amidst the coalmines and shipyards, founding a dynasty in defiance of social conventions. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Some wonen are destined to arouse in men either fierce hatred or insatiable desire. Such a woman was Katie Mulholland.
At fifteen, a scullery maid in the house of the Rosires, she had been raped by the master. Now, many years later, she had enough money to maintain three carriages if she wanted to and she was on her way to see Bernard Rosier under very different circumstances.
There was no pride in Katie Mulholland's heart, however, only fear, for half of Tyneside still talked about the way she had flouted convention, and sniggered about the way she ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552140928
SKU
KKD0006351
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Cookson Catheri
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 ... Read more
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