Catherine Cookson

From beloved author Catherine Cookson comes a never-before-published novel she left behind--a touching tale of a woman with a secret past which draws on some of Cookson's own life experience. "The Silent Lady" begins as a London attorney's office receives a mysterious visitor: a disheveled woman wrapped in dirty garments. It turns out she is a woman with an astonishing past, and her reappearance signals the unraveling of a 25-year-old mystery.

Poverty-stricken dock laborer John O'Brien defends his family from a drunken father and brother before falling in love with his sister's seemingly unattainable teacher.

After the death of her father, Emma Molinero moves in with her grandmother and struggles to find a place for herself in a rugged English village.

Annie, the illegitimate daughter of Kate Hannigan, battles her way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century England and into the arms of a loving doctor and a poor Oxford-educated man who lives down the road.

Ile jest w stanie zrobić dla swego jedynego syna zdesperowana matka, na której decyzje wpływają chorobliwe ambicje spełnienia własnych marzeń z przeszłości? Ellen Jebeau wyszła za mąż za idealistę, który poza snuciem planów na przyszłość, niewiele zdziałał, by je osiągnąć. Po jego śmierci kobieta została z długami, a żeby jakoś sobie radzić – wraz z synkiem Józefem zamieszkała u swego owdowiałego szwagra, sir Arthura....

A novel of class conflict in 19th century England, featuring a butler who advises a nouveau riche on how to be a gentleman. The upstart is Samuel Fairbrother, owner of a boot factory who buys a mansion, but doesn't know how to dress, eat or receive. To his consternation, his daughter falls in love with the butler. By the author of The Obsession.