The Catherine Cookson Collection [DVD]

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Despite this, she was a gifted storyteller from an early age and loved to read books about strong women who faced adversity. Her powerful and emotional storytelling continues to captivate audiences, and her legacy as one of the greatest British authors of all time remains unchallenged.

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The illegitimate child of an alcoholic named Kate Fawcett, she grew up thinking her unmarried mother was her sister, as she was brought up by her grandparents, Rose and John McMullen.

The first film adaptation of her work was Jacqueline (1956), directed by Roy Ward Baker, based on her book A Grand Man. The Black Velvet Gown (1991) with Janet McTeer, Bob Peck, Geraldine Somerville won the International Emmy award for best drama. Her foundation continues to make donations to worthy causes in the UK, particularly those offering services to young people and cultural ventures, such as the Tyneside Cinema.

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For the last few years of her life she was bed-ridden, [24] and she gave her final TV interview to North East Tonight, the regional ITV Tyne Tees news programme, from her sickbed. She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, [12] up until four years after her death, losing the top spot to Jacqueline Wilson only in 2002.

Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at ourwarehouse. Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. With 104 titles written in her own name or two other pen names, she is one of the most prolific British novelists. They then moved to Corbridge, a market town near Newcastle, and later to Langley, Northumberland, [22] a small village nearby.