by Piers Dudgeon · Headline Book Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747256601
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«The Girl from Leam Lane» is the biography of Catherine Cookson written by Piers Dudgeon, published by Headline in paperback (248 pages, in English).
Born in 1906 in Tyneside, Catherine Cookson suffered a poor and neglected childhood. The biography covers the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown and psychiatric admission, and how those experiences are reflected in the heroines of her novels, with conversations and photographs of the author and her husband Tom.
Work originally published in 1997; the 1998 edition includes an index and a bibliography of Catherine Cookson.
For readers of writers' biographies and twentieth-century English literature.
