Just A Saying

by Catherine Cookson, Anne Dover (Narrator)

This collection of poems draws on many themes familiar to the readers of Catherine Cookson's love, work, class and the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom and life in the north of England. From the earliest poem included here, written in 1925 aged nineteen, to those written just before her death in 1998, this anthology spans the gamut of her life and work. She remains one of the nation's favourite storytellers, completing an astonishing 104 works in her lifetime. JUST A SAYING is her final work to be published and shows Cookson at her most intimate and inspirational.

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First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. Catherine 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 contemporary woman novelist. She received an OBE in 1985, was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997.

For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.

Reviews

[Ben · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind language, easy and nice to read. Very meaningful.