Product Description

A cassette containing renditions of such classics as "My Way", "Danny Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer", together with Cookson's own composition, "Falling Leaves". Interspersed with these songs are personal stories from her past, giving a deep insight into Catherine Cookson's philosophy of life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #769525 in Books
• Published on: 1996-11-01
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 4
• Binding: Audio Cassette

From the Back Cover
In Her Way Dame Catherine Cookson sings and reflects on the songs that evoke her most poignant and vivid memories. At the age of thirteen Catherine Cookson was told that she couldn't sing. From then on she suppressed a talent that only came to light when she was eighty.

Hearing My Way for the first time, she knew how much she would dearly love to sing that song - it exactly expressed her life.

Overcoming years of anxiety about her voice, she endeavoured to sing as expressively as she talked. 'I can and I will', had always been her motto, and by letting the lyrics flow from her heart she found her voice only for her illness to become so severe that this new talent had to be put aside and forgotten for ten years.

Included on this audio tape are moving renditions of such classics as My Way and Danny Boy together with Catherine Cookson's own original composition, Falling Leaves. These were first recorded on tape without any backing and discovered by her husband in 1989. Interspersed with these songs are personal stories from her past, imbued with characteristic down-to-earth common sense and told in her uncompromisingly honest style. These she did not record until her ninetieth year.

Available on audio cassette for the first time, and a must for all readers familiar with her work, Her Way gives us a deep insight into Catherine Cookson's hard-won philosophy of life.

Customer Reviews

A very moving personal account of Catherines life
When listening to this for the very first time you feel privilaged to hear the memories of this grand old lady who is aware that her time is fast running out.She shares with you some of her many thoughts and songs of her past and of times long ago.The listener could be sitting right by her side as she tries to let you inside her memories.Knowing just how her life as been set with illness and struggle she still manages to portray a positive and cultured approach to it.Certainly a book to have if you are a great fan of this dear old lady.