The Cultured Handmaiden: A Novel - Hardcover

Cookson, Catherine

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9780684808550: The Cultured Handmaiden: A Novel

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ISBN 10: 0684808552 ISBN 13: 9780684808550

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2005

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Discouraged by her prospects after a broken engagement, twenty-one-year-old secretary Jinny Brownlow accepts an assignment working directly for her company's difficult boss and garners respect when she refuses to cower before him, an accomplishment that coincides with a renewed search for a partner who shares her early 1970s marital beliefs. 25,000 first printing.

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THE CULTURED HANDMAIDEN is set against a splendidly realised background of industrial Tyneside in the late 1970s, and is as powerful a novel as any Catherine Cookson has written, one that will unquestionably enthral her countless readers throughout the world.

Catherine Cookson's novels are about hardship, the intractability of life and of individuals, the struggle first to survive and next to make sense of one's survival. Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues, in a world which she often depicts as cold and violent. Her novels are weighted and driven by her own early experiences of illegitimacy and poverty. This is what gives them power. In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory' - Helen Dunmore, The Times

About the Author:

Catherine Cookson lived in Northumberland, England, the setting of many of her international bestsellers. Born in Tyne Dock, she was the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished woman, Kate, whom she was raised to believe was her older sister. She began to work in the civil service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married a local grammar school master.

Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer, in 1968 her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award, her readership quickly spread worldwide, and her many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular contemporary authors. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998, having completed 104 works.

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