Justice Is a Woman (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books) [Import] [Paperback]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C; Large Print Ed edition (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745136214
• ISBN-13: 978-0745136219
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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 Book: Justice Is A Woman, June 30, 2010

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This review is from: Justice Is A Woman (Paperback)

As always, (especially since reading "Our Kate" and finding out about the medical challenges that
Catherine Cookson faced during her lifetime in the 20th century - and after losing my 2nd mother in
May - she fought Parkinson's Disease for over 3 decades! - I am delighted to have found a book by
Mrs. Cookson that I hadn't read! They truly are always a favorite to "re-read" after a few years
and my only wish is that it had been a bit longer. Top reading, if dated - but she writes with the
attitudes of HER TIMES - not as a woman living in the 21st century might. I love to read books about WOMEN - due to the societal demands placed on them all these years - who manage to "work
around the rules" or are TENACIOUS (stubborn) as I am.