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Rosie finds it hard to cope with her eldest sister's over-possessive nature. Since the death of their mother Beatrice has been insufferably dominating, taking over the running of the house and ruling their father and servants with an iron hand. She glories in being the mistress at Pine Hurst and never dreams of leaving.

But when their father dies unexpectedly their security is threatened, and Beatrice must lay plans to protect this most prized possession.

How will the sister's survive now their father is gone?

Catherine Cookson was the original and bestselling saga writer, selling over 100 million copies of her novels. If you like Dilly Court, Katie Flynn or Donna Douglas, you'll love Catherine Cookson.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Corgi (June 27, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0552176249
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0552176248
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.06 x 7.8 inches
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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.

Photograph from the Catherine Cookson Collection, Howard Gottlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University

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Toni L.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Family you care about!
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2018
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Lovely book! Was so enjoying it I didn't want to finish it!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2016
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2015
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I love Catherine Cookson's books. This one didn't let me down.
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3.0 out of 5 stars but a member of our book club chose it and most of the people liked it.
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2017
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A little difficult to get into.Not a book I would have chosen for myself, but a member of our book club chose it and most of the people liked it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2016
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Love Cookson books
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Ellie
5.0 out of 5 stars Another good read by Catherine Cookson
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2021
I've read a lot of Catherine Cookson books, and I like some better than others, but they are always a good read with interesting story lines and good characters. The Obsession was very enjoyable and Cookson's writing is quick and sucks you in. She doesn't have paragraphs of flowery descriptions describing the characters in her books, but somehow you quickly know who her characters are. I recommend anything she has written.
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2.0 out of 5 stars PULP FICTION
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2007
This novel is so ordinary that it might even set some kind of record for sheer averageness. Everything about it - plot, characterisation, incidents, style - seems routine and practised. From start to finish I detected no genuine originality, no distinctive outlook, no depth in the portrayal of the actors, nothing that surprised me, little that really intrigued me and absolutely no distinction in the writing.

Even the supposed obsession that gives the book its title would have been hard to identify if I had not been told what it was in the synopsis on the dust-cover of my edition. There is a contrived and desperately commonplace denouement that purports to sum the matter up, but there has been little or nothing to be summed up earlier in the story. The person allegedly obsessed has not even been the focus of the narrative, which centres around her husband, and while she is certainly portrayed as unsympathetic and disagreeable the author doesn't link these attributes especially to her fixation on her grand house but more to the story of conjugal infelicity. There is, I should say, one really memorable character, namely Daisy, introduced towards the end of the narrative as if it needed some sort of pick-me-up, which it assuredly does. The other personae are relentlessly two-dimensional, and even the mise-en-scene is humdrum and reach-me-down. The date of the action is not stated, but it must be fairly late in the 19th century as the house has a mains gas-supply. My edition describes the work as a `historical' novel, but the only meaning I can attach to that is that is a `period' novel. If you look in it for any social criticism, any political angle, any sense of the world around it, you will look in vain, as I have just done. The class-system is simply taken for granted, with the upstairs cast behaving as to the manor born and the downstairs complement talking servantese as in the less imaginative kinds of TV dramas on similar themes.

The style of writing made me wonder whether the author gets round to much reading of her own these days. She certainly seems to have written an awful lot of books, and if this specimen is a fair representative of their quality it may be that she could benefit from catching up with some of the writing that is going on around her, a period of silence from her in the interests of that being a price well worth paying, even from her own point of view let alone ours. When I read ` "Oh!" - she wagged her head now - "great excitement last week" `, or `with her head now thoughtfully to one side, she added...', or `Beatrice practically tore her hands from the gentle grip', can I really be reading a novel written in the 1990's? To say nothing of putting the wince-making vulgarism `a coffee' into the mouth of the Victorian landowning class.

I was not expecting any Jane Austen of course, and what I got was a lot better than Barbara Cartland, but I know which of these authors' this book's quality seems to me to come nearer to.
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Merle Johnally
5.0 out of 5 stars Catherine Cookson
Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2020
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I love reading Catherine Cookson books. I would say I am a collector. I have about fifty of her books in my collection.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just like Cookson fans will remember her - brilliant!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2019
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Well, I was always a fan of Catherine Cookson and when I found out about these new books I had to have them. Thanks to Amazon I was able to purchase 4 for £20.28 and I started on this one. I've not quite finished it, almost, but up to press it's just excellent and just as I always found her. I know that I'll enjoy the other 3 just as much. Well Ive finished it now and it was marvellous!
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Fra
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Italy on December 23, 2016
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A wonderful saga around a dark manor. Well written and a lot of suspense. I loved every page. Read it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent plot, settings, characters.
Reviewed in Australia on June 1, 2017
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I have not read Catherine Cookson's books for some time and this one was very good. I have the list of her novels, and I doubt if there is enough time to read them all. Always give it a go. Excellent twists in the tale.
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D. Wolff
4.0 out of 5 stars Catherine Cookson at her finest.
Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2022
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Another Catherine Cookson great historical fiction!
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