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Rosie of the River

Rosie of the River

by Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

    $3.47

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    Hardcover 2000

    $3.47
Synopsis

When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage and they and their bull-terrier Bill set off, with Fred at the helm of Dogfish Three. Sally's misgivings are soon justified, as a series of disasters, human, nautical and canine, threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating fraternity and encounter the remarkable fifteen-year-old Rosie, whose family history stirs their curiosity and sympathy. As a result, Fred and Sally decide to support Rosie's efforts to better herself - and are rewarded when she finds love and happiness.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 1st Corgi Edition
 Publisher: Corgi
Published: 03 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0552147125
ISBN 13: 9780552147125
Book Overview: Although entirely fictional, Rosie of the River was inspired by Catherine Cookson's own experience of holidaying on the Norfolk Broads with her husband Tom. It is yet another example of the prodigious talent of Britain's best-loved author.

Media Reviews
'The most celebrated historical novelist of our time' The Times. 'The undisputed queen of Popular Fiction' Daily Mail.
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.