Author: Catherine Cookson

Born into poverty, Katie Mulholland is forced to find work as a maid in the house of a wealthy family. But the beautiful young girl captures the ey...

A network built on reciprocity, depth, and trust isnt merely helpful to your career growth; it is absolutely necessary. And your network can't cons...

Unwanted and unloved, fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson is everything her mother doesn't want her to be - adventurous, outspoken and unusual. As ...

County Durham, 1830sWhen fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her...

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, ...