Kate's Daughter, the real Catherine Cookson - Piers Dudgeon
he Real Catherine Cookson
KORTE INHOUD
Kate's Daughter gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material made available only since Catherine's death, Pier Dudgeon, author of the No1 bestseller 'The girl from Leam Lane and editor of her own illustrated memoir, 'Catherine Cookson Country', lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman.
When it was known that Kate's Daughter was being written, family members made contact with the author to unburden themselves of material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive. People who knew her when she was a child and at every stage of her life also came forward to set the record straight. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were available.
What emerges is a fresh documentary portrait, illustrated with striking contemporary photographs (many provided by her family and never seen before), shot through with a psychologi...
When it was known that Kate's Daughter was being written, family members made contact with the author to unburden themselves of material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive. People who knew her when she was a child and at every stage of her life also came forward to set the record straight. Meanwhile Catherine's written records, letters and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were available.
What emerges is a fresh documentary portrait, illustrated with striking contemporary photographs (many provided by her family and never seen before), shot through with a psychologi...
