Fanny McBride [Import] [Paperback]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Corgi; New Ed edition (1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552140678
• ISBN-13: 978-0552140676
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,747,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fanny McBride is One of Catherine Cookson's Best, July 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fanny McBride (Paperback)

I loved Fanny McBride. She touched my heart. I cried when she cried. I was happy when she was happy. I could hardly put the book down until I finished. I am a Catherine Cookson collector and Fannie McBride is one of her best. If you like Fanny McBride, you will also love The Fifteen Streets.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulously Funny Fat Fanny!, December 7, 2009

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Tara (Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fanny McBride (Mass Market Paperback)

Somewhere in England in 1959, there is a large house turned into apartments called Mulhatten's Hall. In the apartment right below the attic one, lives Fanny McBride. Fanny is old, widowed (and glad of it), honest to the point of bluntness, and even tho she has only a few pennies to her name, generous to a fault. Anytime someone needs extra coal or a shilling or two, Fanny is the one to go to. And Fanny loves to laugh. But don't cross Fanny! If her behavior towards the "upstart" Nellie Flannagen is anything to go by, no, you don't want to cross Fanny!

Out of twelve children, Fanny has loved and favored one: Jack. Jack has done what Fanny considers unforgiveable tho and up and married a lady of a different relgion. She hasn't seen her Jack since. While drama unfolds with the new family in the attic above and Fanny struggles to come to terms with the fact that her last child will soon be leaving her home, Christmas comes and goes with no sign of Jack. Will he come back?

Fanny also takes a job and these parts bring their own hillarity to the story. I laughed so many times. The ending took me by complete surprise. Fabulous story. I recommend it for anyone who wants to be touched by both laughter and a lonely woman's heartache.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Character!, April 24, 2008

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Ann Rule Fan "bab" (McPherson, Kansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fanny McBride (Paperback)

Fanny McBride - both the character and the book - were wonderful! I love all of Catherine Cookson's works, but this character is one of her most engaging, yet. The book is an easy read and I didn't want to put the book down until I had finished it!