Our Kate: An Autobiography

By Catherine Cookson

Book Overview

Catherine Cookson is known and loved for her vibrant and earthy novels set in and around the North-East of England, past and present. Her autobiography makes plain how it is she knows her background... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672516187
• ISBN13: 9780672516184
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What makes us who we are

5 stars, What makes us who we are OUR KATE: CATHERINE COOKSON, HER PERSONAL STORY by Catherine Cookson This is the raw story of little Katie McMullen and her mother Our Kate whom little Katie was brought up to think that Our Kate was her sister, not her mother. Little Katie had a hard early life because she was illegitimate and people were unkind to the less fortunate in the early 1910s and beyond. Katie was forced to do things she was scared of and really didn't want to do, but there were no children's advocates back then. Catherine Cookson was blessed with a large, caring heart. This translates itself into her stories. I've loved her novels since I discovered her books in 1994. She will always be a favorite author of mine. Highly recommend it, especially if you like Catherine Cookson's novels.

Read so many of her books many many years ago So glad I typed in her name while buying some children's books Now I know where to get the books I missed way back then