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Yorkshire, 1880s. At nineteen years old, Bridget Dean Mordaunt inherits her father's candle and blacking factories. Determined to restore the businesses to their former glory, by the... Læs mere
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When Kate Mitchell was offered the job of part-time secretary at Tor-Fret, a lonely old house on the Northumberland fells, she had no idea that the household was composed only of men. Her... Læs mere
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'Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues . In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory.' - Helen Dunmore, The TimesEveryone, including her family, thought Ward Gibson would marry Daisy Mason.
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County Durham, 1830sWhen fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine brothers and sisters by herself.
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_______________________"Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues .
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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.
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Volume 1 follows Mary Ann, a young girl living in poverty in a dockland tenement on Tyneside, from the ages of eight to thirteen.
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John Emmerson was a lonely man. And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man. But Cissie was also a young widow: poor, and with a young son to support. And John... Læs mere
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Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But Katie’s fate changes course when one man offers her the opportunity to make her own fortune, and to discover real love .
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When Millie's mother abandons her one late afternoon in 1854, fate brings the seven-year-old to Aggie's door - and life will never be the same for either of them. The unlikely pair soon... Læs mere
On vuosi 1937. Geoff Fulton pelastaa 14-vuotiaan Lizzie Gillespien tilanteesta, jossa nuorelle tytölle olisi voinut käydä huonosti. Lizzien hyväluontoisuus tekee Geoffiin vaikutuksen.... Læs mere