Fenwick Houses [Hardcover]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Bantam Books (1973)
• ASIN: B0014CCCSQ
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,224,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Fenwick Houses, May 13, 2001

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Karen Minard (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fenwick Houses (Paperback)

The book was good, but was much too dragged out in the beginning. I didn't find it as good as about a dozen or so other Catherine Cookson books which I have read lately, including "The Black Velvet Gown", "A Dinner of Herbs", "The Cultured Handmaiden", "The Whip". The ending was very good.