Product Description

When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse. They have friends, but charity cannot always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and the bitterness of those who wish them harm. But can love, when it arrives, teach Cissie not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place? Set in the 1830's, "The Dwelling Place" is the powerful tale of a tenacious family's battle to overcome the odds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1697916 in Books
• Published on: 1993-04
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 10
• Binding: Audio Cassette

About the Author
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

I LOVED THIS ONE !
This is another one of cookson`s best. I couldn`t put this down. If you enjoy the rags to riches, with a little romance and even brutality thrown in - you will love this.

realisticly set!
Unlike others this book could almost be real, the settings, language etc. are not exaggerated as a lot of authors do to make it sound 'old', cissie seems to show reactions to things as many would probably have done,but it also has that touch of fiction that is needed for any good book! A must for all who want a realease from everyday life, but not at the expense of reality!!

Excellent reading
This book tells the story of how things were and was so true of that period in time. Feelings and thoughts are well portrayed and makes this book so believable, one could almost be there.