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  1. 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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  2. The girl is The Girl, Hannah Boyle. The man on the horse is Ned, who is supposed to be a hardscrabble farmer type. In reality, he looks like one of the bridge-and-tunnel guys wandering 27th street in their velvet short sleeve mock turtlenecks every Saturday.

  3. 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. Anne is a leeedle bitter about this as well, and never speaks to Hannah again.

  4. Dec 21, 2015 · Catherine Cookson: The Girl – Picture Shows: Cheryl Moody as Young Hannah. The story begins in Northumberland in 1850 with a Young Hannah looking for help because her mother is ill. She trespasses into Ned Ridley’s property desperate to ask him for help. Agreeing to help he then follows her.

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  5. Oct 6, 2020 · Catherine Cookson’s The Girl. The Girl by Catherine Cookson. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. 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.

  6. Like other Catherine Cookson's stories, "The Girl" focuses on a young woman who must overcome emotional and physical obstacles to finally come into the life she deserves. This tale is no different. The performances are excellent, and the costuming and locations equally well done.

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  8. Another installment in the Mallen series, Cookson’s 1999 novel The Mallen Girl, follows the story of Barbara Mallen, a beautiful woman who is slowly becoming more and more deaf, working to solve mysteries before her world becomes completely silent.

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