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The Solace of Sin
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1964342 in Books
- Published on: 2002-09
- Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 8
- Binding: Audio CD
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About the Author
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 a local grammar-school master. At the age of forty she began writing about the lives of the workingclass people with whom she had grown up, using the place of her birth as the background to many of her novels.
Although 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 soon began to spread throughout the world. Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages and more than 50,000,000 copies of her books have been sold in Corgi alone. Fifteen of her novels have been made into successful television dramas, and more are planned.
Catherine Cookson's many bestselling novels have 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 and her husband Tom lived near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday in June 1998.
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It's always a pleasure to read a Catherine Cookson book because you can bet the protagonist will always come out on top no matter what the circumstances. In THE SOLACE OF SIN Constance Stapleton retreats to a home in the country to escape the problems she's facing in the city with her husband who's a lech in the true sense of the word. She meets up with Vincent O'Connor and his family who help her through these difficult times. Although the writing was pure Catherine Cookson, I found the characters a bit flat compared to others I've encountered and wish she would have developed Constance a bit more. This lady was just too good to be true. Still, all in all, I would recommend it to die-hard Cookson fans who (like me) can't seem to get enough of her.
