[ THE DWELLING PLACE BY COOKSON, CATHERINE](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK
[ THE DWELLING PLACE BY COOKSON, CATHERINE](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK
Catherine Cookson
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When 15-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her 9 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.
When 15-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her 9 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.
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...
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