Mary Ann Omnibus [Import] [Hardcover]

CATHERINE COOKSON (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 832 pages
• Publisher: MACDONALD FUTURA (1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0354046047
• ISBN-13: 978-0354046046
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,013,064 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 MARY ANN OMNIBUS V.2, May 1, 2010

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THERE'S NOT TOO MUCH CAN BE SAID. IF YOU LOVE CATHERINE COOKSON, YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK. BE SURE TO READ VOL. 1 FIRST. GREAT SERIES.