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Jan 1, 2001 · Catherine Cookson. Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she would always be “The Girl” – Matthew Thornton’s bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew’s wife, Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her.
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Aug 3, 2011 · The Girl, Hannah, is savagely beaten by Anne when she discovers her stealing her jewellery. Matthew uses this beating as an excuse to take all of Anne’s power within the household away, and to go out on the knob again.
“You’re trouble!” We begin in 1850, when a redheaded child runs up to a man on a horse and begs him to help her mother. The girl is The Girl, Hannah Boyle. The man on the horse is Ned, who is supposed to be a hardscrabble farmer type.
Oct 6, 2020 · Catherine Cookson’s The Girl. This was a difficult book for me to read, given the central character is presented as the illegitimate offspring of a middle class, relatively well-off family man. This is my second foray into Catherine Cookson as I read my way through a compendium of her novels.
Mar 9, 2010 · The girl : a novel. by. Cookson, Catherine. Publication date. 1977. Topics. Working class. Publisher. New York : Morrow.
Directed by: David Wheatley. Writer (s): Catherine Cookson (novel), Gordon Hann. Cast: Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Cake, Mark Benton, Jill Baker, Malcolm Stoddard. Setting: Northumberland, U.K. Filming locations: North East of England. Tyne Tees Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, U.K.
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