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  • Pure As The Lily
Pure As The Lily
  • Imprint: Corgi

  • Published: 05/05/2008

  • ISBN: 9780552156714

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 29mm x 106mm

  • Weight: 253g

  • RRP: £7.99

Pure As The Lily

Catherine Cookson

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Mary Walton is the apple of her father's eye; his only comfort during the dark years of the Depression when he is faced with both unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife.

His only hope is that Mary will one day find a way to escape the grinding poverty of the Tyneside slums. But when a secret is revealed these dreams are shattered and the lives of the Walton family change forever. . .

Spanning Mary's life from the 1930's to the 1970's, Pure as the Lily is a spellbinding, unforgettable tale from one of Britain's most cherished novelists.

  • Imprint: Corgi

  • Published: 05/05/2008

  • ISBN: 9780552156714

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 29mm x 106mm

  • Weight: 253g

  • RRP: £7.99


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About the Author

Catherine Cookson

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.

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