Author: Catherine Cookson

Yorkshire, 1880sAt nineteen years old, Bridget Dean Mordaunt inherits her fathers candle and blacking factories. Determined to restore the business...

When Millie's mother abandons her one late afternoon in 1854, fate brings the seven-year-old to Aggie's door - and life will never be the same for ...

Cumbria, 1870s.Just before her fifteenth birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She ...

_______________________Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues . . . In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, ...