Description
TO BE A LADY is the biography of the best selling author and northern cultural icon, Catherine Cookson, whose books regularly sell 80, 000 in hardback and over half a million in papeback. Following her story from her birth as illegitimate daughter of a South Shields woman who becomes an alcoholic in later life, through her career as a laundry worker, to her current star status. TO BE A LADY features interviews with the subject and original research, and reveals a great deal of fresh information. This is a warm, sympathetic picture of life in the north before the war and the class antagonisms that she suffered, and of a determined woman who has fought against all the odds to get where she is, who impresses still with her charitable work and no-nonsense approach to life.
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