The girl from Leam Lane: the life and writing of Catherine Cookson
Biography, Literature biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Catherine Cookson's first novel, "Kate Hannigan", was published in 1950. The novel represented the author's triumph over unhappiness - within its pages she was exorcising her own demons. Piers Dudgeon unlocks her complex character using her many books as a… key and explores with Catherine herself the tortured drama of her personal life and its resolution. 1997.