The Year of the Virgins
Catherine Cookson
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Description for The Year of the Virgins
Paperback. It had never been the best of marriages. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was in a totally unforeseeable and devastating form, plunging the Coulsons into an excoriating series of crises out of which would come both good and evil. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 22. Weight in Grams: 174. Very good copy with light shelf wear
It had never been the best of marriages and over recent years it had become effectively a marriage in name and outward appearance only. Yet, in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson presented an acceptable facade to the outside world, for Daniel had prospered sufficiently to allow them to live at Wearcill House, a mansion situated in the most favoured outskirt of the Tyneside town of Fellburn.
Of their children, it was Donald on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsession, and now he was to be married, Winifred's prime concern was whether Donald was entering ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1994
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552132473
SKU
KCW0005847
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3
About Catherine Cookson
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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