Heritage of Folly & The Fen TIger Omnibus

by Catherine Cookson

HERITAGE OF 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 student, who innocently became involved in the tension between the two households on the day of her arrival…

THE FEN Deep in the wild fen country, Rosamund Morley lived a cloistered, poverty-stricken existence with her sister Jennifer and her alcoholic father. It was she who ran for help the night her father set his bed alight after a drinking bout. And while fleeing through the woods, she met Michael Bradshaw, the man she christened the Fen Tiger.

576 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. Catherine 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 contemporary woman novelist. She received an OBE in 1985, was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997.

For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.

Reviews

[Lili · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read all of Catherine Cookson's books some years ago and enjoyed them immensley. I recently re-read all of them and find that on a second look I found them all so very predictable, and was rather disappointed. However I'm sure that it is my tastes that have changed not the calibre of her story telling.