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Catherine Cookson - The Maltese Angel - 9780552136846 - KSS0014434
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The Maltese Angel

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Description for The Maltese Angel Paperback. Ward Gibson knew what was expected of him by the village folk, and by the Mason family, whose daughter Daisy he had known all his life. But then his whole world had been turned upside down by a dancer. And a scorpion had already begun to emerge from beneath the stone of the local community, who considered that Ward had betrayed their expectations. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 108 x 33. Weight in Grams: 254. Good clean copy showing some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps to cover

Ward Gibson knew what was expected of him by the village folk, and especially by the Mason family, whose daughter Daisy he had known all his life. But then, ina single week, his whole world had been turned upside down by a dancer, Stephanie McQueen, who seemed to float across the stage of the Empire Music Hall where she was appearing as The Maltese Angel. To his amazement, the attraction was mutual, and after a whirlwind courtship she agreed to marry him.

But a scorpion had already begun to emerge from beneath the stone of the local community, who considered that Ward had betrayed their expectations, and had led on and cruelly deserted Daisy. There followed a series of reprisals on his family, one of them serious enough to cause him to exact a terrible revenge; and these events would twist and turn the course of many lives through Ward's own and succeeding generations.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Corgi
Condition
Used, Good
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552136846
SKU
KSS0014434
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Catherine Cookson
Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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