Beech.netpresto.co.uk" (PDF). www.sthct.nhs.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 September 2008 . Retrieved 5 April 2023. The Secret (2000) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling, Clare Higgins, and Stephen Moyer Thomas, Robert McG Jr. (12 June 1998). "Catherine Cookson, 91, Prolific British Author". The New York Times . Retrieved 15 January 2018. The latest from Cookson ( The Love Child ; The Bailey Chronicles ) is a perfunctorily plotted novel of tragedy and romance. After his father's death in 1926, five-year-old Joe Jebeau and his Continue reading » Tilly Trotter (1999) with Carli Norris, Beth Goddard, Sarah Alexander, Amelia Bullmore, Rosemary Leach and Simon Shepherd

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So a pattern began to form that would shape the lives of generations to come, a pattern of some good and some great evil, but all of it inexorably linking Bridget ever more closely with the Filmores and their house as well as the Skinners who work for Bridget. But it is Bridget who stands firmly at its centre, doing her best to shape the destinies of all around her over three generations.

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Our John Willie (1980) with Ian Cullen, David Burke, James Garbutt, John Malcolm and Malcolm Terris I enjoyed the story for much of the book, but either this one was too long for me or too depressing! The characters, especially Bridget, were realistically drawn and I was caught up in their life stories from the start. As I continued reading I hoped for some redemption for them, some kind of happiness out of their hopelessness. Life was unfair to women,'' thinks Agnes Conway, Cookson's latest naive but indomitable and likable turn-of-the-century heroine whose options seem to be a marriage of convenience or bitter Continue reading » Heritage of folly / Catherine Marchant (the pseudonym of Catherine Cookson)". NLA.gov.au. National Library of Australia.

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When the devious Lionel Filmore enters Bridget’s family life, hoping to marry into her hard-earned wealth, she has to use all of her strength and ingenuity to keep her family together. All titles from The Mallens onwards have been released on DVD in the UK and various other countries.In this story, Bridget, the heroine, *expects* her protege, Joseph, to have inherited his biological father's character flaws, even though he was raised by a stepfather. Once Joseph realized who his father was and how he had acted, he seemed helpless to prevent himself from following suit and making a similar choice (what is often called a 'self-fulfilling prophecy'.) Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. She also wrote books under the pseudonyms Catherine Marchant [10] and a name derived from her childhood name, Katie McMullen. [11] She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, [12] up until four years after her death, losing the top spot to Jacqueline Wilson only in 2002. [13] Books in film, on television and on stage [ edit ] No one gets to die in publishing anymore—instead, the dead just keep pumping out new books. The latest posthumously published novel from Cookson (Kate Hannigan's Continue reading » What differentiates a true lady from a common woman? Is it blood, environment, education or simply hauteur? The late, prolific Cookson deftly explores these questions in this dizzying Continue reading »