Kate's Daughter

Born into the bleak industrial heartland of Tyneside in 1906, an illegitimate child whose father skedaddled before she was born, Catherine Cookson met the world head-on and found the courage to escape her roots and search for her natural self. Rejecting her birthplace, class, religion and even her people, she reached rock bottom and then wrote her way back into their hearts as one of the world's best-loved authors.

Illustrated with 25 striking personal photographs, this is the real Jarrow Lass and the ultimate rags-to-riches story delivered hard-edged by Catherine herself and folk who lived in the same street as her as a child and knew first-hand the pain that hardship and alienation brings.

'A powerful story and Piers Dudgeon tells it with skill and feeling' Daily Telegraph

About the Author
Piers Dudgeon is a publisher and the author of more than thirty books of non-fiction. He worked for ten years as an editor in London before starting his own company, publishing authors as diverse as Daphne du Maurier, John Fowles, Peter Ackroyd, Ted Hughes, Giovanni Guareschi, Angus Stewart and Susan Hill, and writing a number of books celebrating the spirit of place, including Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision, The Spirit of Britain: A Guide to Literary Britain and The Country Child:Intimations of Immortality. In 1993 he left London for Yorkshire, where he wrote biographies of Catherine Cookson, Maeve Binchy, Barbara Taylor Bradford, J M Barrie and the Du Maurier family, the lateral thinker Edward de Bono and the composer Sir John Tavener, as well as a series of oral histories of Glasgow, Liverpool and London's East End.

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