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Catherine Marchant
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Catherine Ann McMullen was born on 27 June 1906 in Tyne Dock, England, UK. She grew up as daugther of Rose and John McMullen, but was the illegitimate daughter of Kate Fawcett, whom she believed to be her older sister, and Alexander Davies, a bigamist. She left school at 13 and, and she began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master, whom she married on June 1940. She suffered some miscarriages and couldn't have children.
She took up writing as a form of therapy to tackle her depression, and joined Hastings Writers' Group. Her first novel was published in 1950. She wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. She also wrote books under her childhood name, Katie McMullen, and under the pseudonym Catherine Marchant. 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. She passed away on 11 June 1998 in North East. She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, losing the title only in 2002, four years after her death.
Book List in Order: 7 titles
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The Fen Tiger // House of the Fens
- 1963
- / Romantic Suspense
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In the lonely mill house deep in the wild fen country, Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered, poverty-stricken existence with her sister Jennifer and her alcoholic father. Rosamund was the prop and stay of the family - and it was she who ran for help th...
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The Mists of Memory
- 1965
- / Romantic Suspense
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LETTER FROM A STRANGER It seemed to be a simple business letter: an invitation to appraise some family heirlooms. But it threatened to change the course of Alison's entire life and destroy the fragile happiness to which she clung so zealously. ...
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Evil at Roger's Cross
- 1966
- / Romantic Suspense
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Prudence Dudley sought solitude in which to recover from the ache of a lover's betrayal. She found an oddly isolated old house in which bitter secrets lurked and sinister tensions lay buried just beneath the surface. She tried to avoid becoming inv...
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The Unbaited Trap
- 1966
- / Historical Romance
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TWO KINDS OF SIN Beautiful young widow Cissie Thorpe sensed it was wrong to accept the attentions of her employer, brilliant lawyer John Emmerson. But it seemed quite innocent to offer friendship to this man trapped in a loveless marriage, so lone...
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Miss Martha Mary Crawford
- 1975
- / Romantic Suspense
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Who was the young woman whose eyes burned into his with a fierce and steady hatred? His practiced eye saw a woman too young to have shouldered the burden and shame she had, a woman who fear and bitterness had driven to brink... -- She returned his ...
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The Slow Awakening
- 1976
- / Romantic Suspense
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She was a beautiful lost child driven into womanhood by the terrible passions that ruled men's hearts... LUSTED AFTER, DECEIVED, LOVED BEYOND REASON AND PASSION Kirsten MacGregor was a creature tossed about by the whim of a harsh destiny. Orpha...
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