The Tinker's Girl [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Catherine Cookson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Chivers Press (1985)
• ASIN: B001AHLNR6
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,402,819 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.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!!, January 12, 2011

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alsgal2926 "alsgal2926" (Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Tinker's Girl (Mass Market Paperback)

Another amazing book by Cookson. I love her dialogue and how she manages to take you into her story through her musical use of words. The story really shows you how not all we think we want is best for us and how the wonders and joys of life can manifest themselves in unexpected places. My only concern is that it seems to be a trend for Cookson for someone in her story to always end up with a cold that almost kills them. I know this happened quite often in the era during which the story takes place, but my goodness! Every story!!Other than that, I was not at all disappointed. <3

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok read, September 20, 2011

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Nicky "Nicky" (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Tinker's Girl (Kindle Edition)

This book was just ok. It started out lovely but got real predictable from the middle. I gave it three stars because of teh subject manner and the colourful almost poetical language that is used throughout the narrative.

2 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summer Reading, June 26, 2008

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NANA MARY "NANA" (Arm Pit of America, OK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tinker's Girl (Paperback)

Delivered on time. Good condition. Good author. Will buy from this dealer again.