Go Tell It to Mrs.Golightly [Import] [Hardcover]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; New Ed edition (August 8, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385401361
• ISBN-13: 978-0385401364
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,111,286 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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Treasure !, October 14, 2008

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This review is from: Go Tell It to Mrs. Golightly (Hardcover)

Many years ago,I read this book to my children --it is a mystery, it makes you laugh and cry & it has a happy ending & has been a wonderful memory over the years.
My children are now 35-40 yrs. old and when I told them I found this book, they all want me to read it to their children. What a timeless treasure!