by Catherine Cookson · Corgi Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552136211
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«The Gillyvors» is the historical novel by Catherine Cookson, published by Corgi Books in paperback (432 pages, in English).
The novel, set in County Durham about a hundred years ago, tells the life of Nathaniel Martell, Maria Dagshaw and their six children, whom the Victorian community considers 'gillyvors' (bastards). The story focuses on the eldest daughter, Anna, and her determination to face the legacy of an illegitimate birth, with family, identity and social class as the backdrop.
The novel was originally published in 1990; this Corgi Books edition dates from July 1991.
For readers of historical novels and family sagas set in Victorian England.
Dame Catherine Ann Cookson was a British writer. She is in the top 20 of the most widely read British novelists, with sales topping 100 million, while she retained a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers. Her books were inspired by her deprived youth in South Shields, North East England, the setting for her novels. With 104 titles written in her own name or two other pen names, she is one of the most prolific British novelists.
