Heritage of Folly

Heritage of Folly

by Catherine Cookson (Author), Catherine Marchant (Author), Catherine Marchant (Author), Catherine Cookson (Author)

Synopsis

The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms, and between them raged a violent and bitter feud. Into this stormy atmosphere came Linda Metcalfe, a young agricultural student, who innocently became involved in the tension between the two households on the day of her arrival.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Corgi Books
Published: 18 Aug 1994

ISBN 10: 0552140872
ISBN 13: 9780552140874

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.