by Catherine Cookson · Corgi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552136846
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«The Maltese Angel» is the historical novel by Catherine Cookson, published by Corgi in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Ward Gibson, a young man engaged to Daisy Mason, is fascinated by Stephanie McQueen, a dancer at the Empire Music Hall who performs as The Maltese Angel. After a whirlwind courtship they marry, and the community accuses him of betraying Daisy and responds with reprisals. The novel follows those vendettas in the lives of Ward and his descendants.
The Corgi paperback edition was published in 1993.
For readers of family sagas and historical fiction, with a story spanning several generations.
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.
