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• Catherine Cookson - Birth, Death, Love And Marriage | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £23.54   |  Saving you £16.45 (69.88%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Catherine Cookson - The Classics: Tilly Trotter/The Cinder Path/The Fifteen Streets/The Gambling Man | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Box Set Contains: The Cinder Path The Fifteen Streets The Gambling Man & Tilly Trotter.

• The Cinder Path | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A year before the outbreak of the First World War Charlie MacFell returns from university to Northumberland to visit the farm where he spent an unhappy childhood and where his brutal father would subject young farm hands to vicious beatings on the hot cinder path. Marriage to the beautiful but adulterous Victoria Chapman turns out to be a further humiliation for Charlie but when he joins the army he discovers amongst the horrors of the Western Front a strength he never knew existed. Respected by his family and by his men on the battlefield he finally finds true love with his wife's younger sister. Just as lasting happiness is within his grasp fate seems poised to snatch it all away...