- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Bantam (1975)
- ASIN: B000LUDOIY
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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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.
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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Mary Ann Is Growing Up,
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This review is from: Life and Mary Ann a (Paperback)
In this, the fifth installment of the Mary Ann novels, Mary Ann is seventeen years old and still living on Mr. Lord's farm. Her family life seems to be going rather well tho her da is still threatening to hit the bottle again over every little thing that goes wrong. However, Mary Ann is always able to stop him. At seventeen, Mary Ann is still quite enamored with her childhood sweetheart, Corny. Corny announces he is going to America tho and will come back for Mary Ann in a year. Mary Ann has her doubts..Meanwhile, during Corny's one year absense, Mary Ann is meddling in everyone's affairs and trying to fix everyone's problems again. A friend is pregnant, an acquaintance is getting smacked around by her husband, Mr. Lord's grandson is about to drop a bomb by announcing his plans to wed a woman that Mr. Lord will not approve of, and somebody gets a serious case of polio with drastic results. Amid all this excitement, Mary Ann wonders and worries, "Will Corny come back?" Four stars because it wasn't quite as exciting or as funny as the last Mary Ann novel, Love and Mary Ann. Still good tho.
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