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Before I Go
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Written near the end of her life, Before I Go is Catherine Cookson’s final autobiographical account. It revisits the poverty, secrecy and emotional insecurity of her South Shields childhood, her work in local institutions and the marriage to Tom Cookson that provided the stable partnership missing from her early years.
Cookson also writes about repeated miscarriages, serious illness and the late beginning of a literary career that made her one of Britain’s most widely read novelists. The memoir is direct about anger, shame and ambition, while showing how personal experience was transformed into the families and communities of her fiction.
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