Product Description

The events of this novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #647245 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 219 pages

From the Back Cover
For seventeen-year-old Brid Stevens the day began at four o'clock on a summer morning, when her alarm clock roused her from a dream-filled sleep. She had an appointment to keep with Joe Lloyd, whom she had met at the weekly dance. On the cliff-top at Stockwell Hill, overlooking the sea, they were to watch the sun come up. What was to occur after that was to bring a day of such promise to a tragic end.

The events of this powerful novel, set on the Northumbrian coast in the 1960s, take place over one day, a period during which everyone involved discovers that the consequences of an innocent meeting between two young people are far more significant than the event itself. The Bonny Dawn is a remarkable tour de force by Britain's most popular novelist.

About the Author
Catherine Cookson
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.

Customer Reviews

NO NO NO !!!
I did not like this one at all. I found it boring and tedious and gave up on it. I`ve never left a cookson novel unfinished, but this one - it wasn`t worth the paper it was written on. What a load of old cods...

An overall pleasing book with excellent characters and story
This book has a very interesting layout, as it was all based in a period of just 24 hrs, which was both original and successful. The characters in the story were all very individual and easy to identify with one's self. Catherine Cookson was a brilliant author and all of her books that I have had the pleasure to read have been brilliant, this one especially. I think that she wrote this book from the heart, just as she did with her other various stories. An overall capturing book that pleased me greatly to have chosen to read.