Marriage and Mary Ann (Mary Ann Chronicles) [Audio Cassette]

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• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745158536
• ISBN-13: 978-0745158532
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,477,623 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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mary Ann Shaughnessy finally leaves her Da to wed Corny, April 18, 2002

By 

M. Gardner "iloveds9" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Marriage and Mary Ann (Hardcover)

In this volume Mary Ann must deal with her beloved father's
attraction to a young, conniving woman named Yvonne, who,
along with her conspiring mother, plot to woo Mike away from
Lizzie and the family.

Mike, flattered by the attention, ignores pleas to show the
two women the door, and continues the dangerous association,
forcing a wedge between himself and his loving daughter.

Against the backdrop of their Michael's wedding to Sarah
Flanagan, Mary Ann once again must find a way to bring Mike
back to his senses and into the family's loving fold.

It's good to see Mary Ann's fiery spirit still intact; the convent school may have smoothed out some of her rough edges but
nothing will ever change her true character, and her fierce
loyalties to her family and her benefactor Mr. Lord. Once more
she displays the courage to act on her own instinct, which never
steers her wrong in the end.

I enjoyed seeing young Michael and Sarah's love changing them
both for the better. I sympathized with poor dear Lizzies' problems with one-of-a-kind Mike Shaughnessy. I worried along
with Mary Ann as she gets cold feet before her marriage to Corny, will she really be able to live away from her beloved
home, her family, and be known from now on as Mary Ann Boyle?

Let's not forget the irrepressible character of hearty, poverty-stricken Fanny McBride. Read the novel of the same name for more of this tough, delightful old woman.

I was once again taken across the water to North Country England
listening to Susan Jameson's excellent reading of this terrific
book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Man's Midlife Crisis, November 24, 2009

By 

Tara (Utah) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Marriage and Mary Ann a (Paperback)

This is the sixth novel in the Mary Ann series. Obviously, Mary Ann gets married, but do not be fooled into thinking this book is about HER marriage. As Mary Ann and Corny do not tie the knot till the very end, it is about Mary Ann's parents and their marital troubles. Mary Ann's da, Mike is going thru a midlife crisis. He is on the verge of having an affair as well as hitting the bottle and it is once again Mary Ann to the rescue. Can she succeed this time tho?

I enjoy these Mary Ann books, but quite frankly I am ready for her da to die. I am tired of him and his drinking and his problems and the way Mary Ann always defends him. Thus, four stars instead of five.

I did, however, get a good laugh or two as usual with a Mary Ann book.