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Kathleen Jones

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I was brought up on a remote hill farm in the English Lake District. I started writing as a teenager, publishing small pieces in local magazines and newspapers, fanzines and teenage mags such as ‘Jackie’. I married very early and started travelling the world with my husband, had four children, worked in broadcasting in the middle east, and became a single parent. Back in the UK I went to university as a mature student, and wrote my first book which I was lucky enough to have published by Bloomsbury. Since then I’ve managed to (almost!) make a living as a writer, teaching creative writing pt-time to pay the bills.

I’ve probably made it sound easy, but it wasn’t. I know I’ve been incredibly lucky to be published and to be able to share what I ...more

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The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly

This is an important, powerful book based on exhaustive research. It’s narrated through the eyes of a mute neuro-divergent girl kept in a secure children’s hospital in 1930s Vienna, which, like today, is a time of great political upheaval. ‘Important Facts’ are recorded by Adelheid Brunner in her notebooks, but ‘the Facts are most Unruly’ and are twisted and distorted by those who live between wh

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	A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives and Daughters of the Lake Poets 3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catherine Cookson : The Biography 3.97 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Not to Be First: the Life of Christina Rossetti 3.97 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margaret Forster: A Life in Books 4.12 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle: A Glorious Fame 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeking Catherine Cookson's 'Da 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun's Companion 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Centauress 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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TIME'S TESTIMONY (The Wyngrave Women Book 3)

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“In primitive societies the person who was almost as important as the shaman and operated on the same kind of level was the storyteller.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

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“To be ill-treated by your mother, who is supposed to be a loving, nurturing figure, is one of the most damaging things that can happen to a child.”
― Kathleen Jones, Catherine Cookson: Child of the Tyne

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