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Catherine Cooksons personal story, Our Kate, made plain how it was she knew her background and her characters so well: she lived in it and with them, under conditions so hard and primitive that, as one reviewer of Our Kate wrote: It is a vivid, raw, tenacious existence which she recollects; at times almost more than the eye can endure. Being born illegitimate was only one of the difficulties she lived through, but the stigma was to dominate her consciousness until well into her middle years, when, in the calm of a happy marriage, she was able to accept all the varied influences that had formulated her character, and to write it all down in this masterful exercise in self-therapy and reconciliation. Our Kate of the title is not Catherine Cookson, but her mother, and it is around her that the autobiography revolves. Her mother is presented with all her faults yet, despite these, she comes out as a warm and loveable human figure. And against this background we see cast in relief the young Catherine going to the pawn, fetching the beer, being ignored because of her birth, collecting driftwood from the river and coke as it fell off the gas-carts, for she lived and struggled through the

Who reads Our Kate: An Autobiographical Memoir?

Author

Cookson, Catherine

Publisher

Peach Publishing

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780360966

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Peoples & Cultures Biography

Rating

4.3 / 5 (234 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14