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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherTransWorld The Limited
ISBN-100552140937
ISBN-139780552140935
eBay Product ID (ePID)1663778
Product Key Features
Book TitleOur Kate
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Dysfunctional Families, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorCatherine Cookson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight6.3 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisCatherine Cookson is known and loved for her vibrant and earthy novels set in and around the North-East of England, past and present. Her autobiography makes plain how it is she knows her background and her characters so well. The Our Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mother, around whom the autobiography revolves. Despite her faults, Kate emerges a warm and loveable human figure. Our Kate is an honest statement about living with hardship and poverty, seen through the eyes of a highly sensitive child and woman, whose zest for life and unquenchable sense of humour won through to make Catherine Cookson the warm, engaging and human writer she is today., An autobiography which presents a story that revolves around the author's mother. It offers an account of living with hardship and poverty as seen through the eyes of a sensitive child and woman.