The Devil and Mary Ann [Import] [Hardcover]

CATHERINE COOKSON (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 222 pages
• Publisher: MACDONALD; First edition (1963)
• ASIN: B0000CK3BI
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

More About the Author

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 won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists.

After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997.

For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Devil and MaryAnn, May 1, 2009

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Ladyl (Gresham Ore USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Devil and Mary Ann (Hardcover)

Catherine Cooksons' insight into the young people of her time is awe inspiring. I fell in love with Mary Ann and her benefactor the gruff Mr Lord and how through her, good things were happening for her 'Da' Her friend Mrs Flannagan is a wealth of advice which Mary Ann takes to heart. Too bad her grannie is such a dreadful person to her and her 'Da' but whatever happens Mary Ann comes through it with flying colours

4.0 out of 5 stars Mary Ann and the Nuns, October 20, 2009

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Tara (Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Devil and Mary Ann a (Paperback)

Mary Ann is still eight in the third installment of the Mary Ann series, but surprisingly, I enjoyed her and her eight year old sassy self still. In this one, Mary Ann must live up to her end of a bargain with Mr. Lord and she must head off to a convent to become educated. So the fiesty, highstrung Mary Ann is now surrounded by devout, prude nuns. Those who know Mary Ann from her previous novels know this cannot last!!

Sure enough, poor Mary Ann gets one bad "mark" after another, ends in one mishap after another, and even finds another "Sarah Flannegen" to fight with. It is only a matter of time before she escapes and races off to her home and her beloved ma and da and brother, Michael. But things at home are not all peachy and she doesn't get the welcome she expects. Mr. Lord is upset. Her ma is afraid her da is having an affair. Her evil granny puts her two cents in and the hated Sarah Flannegen is smug and full of attitude at Mary Ann's fall from grace.

A surprise addition is made in this story with the mysterious Tony that comes to work on the farm.. He has a secret connection to Mr. Lord. This new character may have a drastic effect on the farm, on Mary Ann, and her family.

Nevertheless, after escaping from a convent, what is next for Mary Ann??