That's another thing I like about Cookson's novels; I can usually watch a movie after reading one of them. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small girl from a dockland tenement, she is in fact a one-man army, armoured with faith and possessed of formidable qualities. Annabella LaGrange was the only child of a wealthy family, owners of a glassworks in the North-East of England. For an ordinary working lad, he was doing well - until one day, his luck changed and suddenly, things did not go as smoothly as he was used to.

He declares his love for Cissie and says he has no choice but to marry Rose, or they will all starve. I liked the beginning - the character of Cissie was good and the story interesting - to say nothing of the countryside which has caused me to seriously consider moving to Great Britain. In the midst of trying to put an end to the girlfight, Clive falls over on top of Cissie, and apparently his pants fell down in the fracas, because as Isabella screams encouragement like it’s the last hundred yards of the Boston Marathon, Clive rapes Cissie. The Dwelling Place is one of the best books I've ever read with strong characters and an unforgettable plot.And I really, really liked it and found it actually quite difficult to put down, but now I'm hard-pressed to find the right things to say about my reading experience. Simple enough stuff then,put like that,but "The dwelling-place" glitters with fine performances and conveys the atmosphere of early Industrial Revolution England,although oddly. Catherine Cookson wrote so many books, sometimes they are a bit hokey, but I liked most of this book except for one very large thing. It’s just as well he’s around, too, since kids are always coming back from the mine with head injuries and femurs sticking out and whatever.

Life with domineering Uncle John and his family did not always prove easy, however, and on Sunday Robert was glad to set off alone exploring the Durham countryside. Each generation of the Mallen family has been cursed with a dramatic white streak in their jet-black hair.

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it - she was becoming more and more deaf.

But to all of them, he passed on his mark – a distinctive flash of white hair running to the left temple known as the Mallen Streak. But then, in a single week, his whole world had been turned upside down by a dancer, Stephanie McQueen, who seemed to float across the stage of the Empire Music Hall where she was appearing as The Maltese Angel.I recommend it to those who LOVE historical fiction and perhaps those who like not having the difficulty of something like Jane Austen.

He also appeared in a later Catherine Cookson adaptation, The Tide of Life, which starred Gillian Kearney. This week, I tackle the seemingly endless and screamingly worst of all the Cookson adaptations I have seen, The Dwelling Place. or that they had an understanding I mean, although in the movie I kinda understood but idk I was like really?Roddy befriends Hal Roystan and Mary Ellen Lee, and these three find their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and somewhat cruel destiny. But when he gives into the demands of the vivacious Betty Ray, the scandal that follows not only splits his family but ruins his career. The characters of Isabel and Clive were so stereotypical that it was laughable - she was the evil witch and he was the weak-kneed pretty boy with not one ounce of courage.