Catherine Cookson

Author

Catherine Cookson was one of the bestselling British authors of the twentieth century, whose sagas about working-class life in the north-east of England sold over 123 million copies. Born in South Shields in 1906, she drew on her own difficult childhood and the landscape of Tyneside to create fiction of extraordinary emotional power. A... Dinner of Herbs is one of her many saga novels set in the north-east, following the intertwined lives of ordinary people through hardship, love, and resilience. Cookson was the most borrowed author from British libraries for seventeen consecutive years. Her fiction is celebrated for its emotional authenticity and its vivid portrayal of working-class communities. Cookson died in 1998. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers classic British saga fiction from the queen of the genre — stories of resilience, love, and the strength of the human spirit. Read more Show less