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The Whip

The Whip

by Catherine Cookson (Author)

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    Hardcover 1983

    $3.25

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    Paperback 1992

    $4.20
Synopsis

Emma inherited her father's skill with the whips and knives which he used in his act in an early-Victorian travelling show. This strange legacy was to play a significant part in shaping Emma's destiny after she'd been orphaned at seven and sent to live with an unknown grandmother in County Durham.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 03 Jan 1983
ISBN 10: 0434142743
ISBN 13: 9780434142743

Author Bio
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.