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Heritage Of Folly / The Fen Tiger

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Heritage of Folly and The Fen Tiger by Catherine Cookson are beautifully intertwined tales exploring themes of love, legacy, and human struggle. Set against atmospheric landscapes, the stories delve into the complexities of family dynamics and the secrets that bind or divide generations. In this romance, characters must navigate profound emotional discoveries while confronting their pasts and forging new paths in search of happiness.
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Heritage Of Folly / The Fen Tiger

But then the past erupted into the present, forcing Ralph to change his attitude to Linda and resolving the whole Batley/Cadwell heritage of folly...

THE FEN TIGER
Deep in the wild fen country, Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered, poverty-stricken existence with her sister Jennifer and her alcoholic father.

Two wonderful novels in one volume.

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Two wonderful novels in one volume.

Heritage of Folly
The Batleys and the Cadwells owned neighbouring farms on the beautiful, wild Northumbrian coast. But there all similarity ended, and enmity began. For between the two families raged a violent and bitter feud—a feud so powerful that the very name of Cadwell made Ralph Batley seethe with uncontrollable fury.

Into this stormy atmosphere came Linda Metcalfe, a young agricultural student, who innocently became involved in the tension between the two households on the day of her arrival. Employed by Ralph Batley, Linda soon found herself in a very difficult situation. For not only had she unwittingly become a part of the feud, but she began to feel a strange admiration for Ralph, who made it painfully clear that he had no use for her either on the farm or in his life. But then the past erupted into the present, forcing Ralph to change his attitude to Linda and resolving the whole Batley/Cadwell heritage of folly...

The Fen Tiger
Deep in the wild fen country, Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered, poverty-stricken existence with her sister Jennifer and her alcoholic father. She was the prop and stay of the family—and it was she who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout. That night was to change the course of Rosamund's life—for, fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, the man she christened the 'Fen Tiger'.

When she knew more of Michael's past and the fate that had forced him to live in isolation, Rosamund's initial feelings of dislike changed to compassion... and then to something deeper....

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780552147019

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 1999

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Corgi Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 106.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 292g

Pages: 576

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 Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was 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 quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels 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 lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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