Romance Books > Catherine Cookson Romance Books > less than 5 GBP

Advantages: Puts you to sleep quickly
Disadvantages: Takes ages to read as it's so boring

...to become a woman, called Rosie who they meet on a holiday to the Norfolk Broads. The book consists of 284 small pages with large text and Rosie finally appears in the storyline on page 103. Pages 11-102 are all about Fred and Sally and Bill and are, quite frankly, totally boring, as is the rest of the book. Childless couple meet girl, childless couple befriend girl, girl goes to childless couple when things get tough, girl marries posh bloke etc. ...
...took me nearly 4 weeks to complete reading this book. I picked it up, read a few pages, put it down because I was so bored out of my mind. I literally had to force myself to finish reading the book. Each time I picked it up I just couldn’t believe that this was a Catherine Cookson storyline. There wasn’t any melodrama in it, as such, the plot could have been written by a 10 years old, the characters were portrayed as Hooray Henry types and I have ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to read
Disadvantages: None

...this novel is set in the County of Durham, 10 year old Annabella Legrange lives with her parents in Redford Hall, her mother is devoted to Annabella but her father is a gambler and womaniser. Annabella is quite happy with her sheltered life until her parents quarrel bitterly and Annabella discovers that her real mother is a prostitute, devastated with the truth Annabella flees her home and sets off with her father`s one time groom, to make her own ... Read review

Advantages: Brillent story line
Disadvantages: None

Tilly Trotter Wed is the second book in the Catherine Cookson saga. The story of a sixteen year old fighting to survive in a cruel world. Mistress of Highfield Manor for twelve years, she thought she had found love and happiness until the master dies. leaving Tilly with no legal claim to his estates. Just as life had settled down, Tilly is to endure more hardship, left pregnant she is driven from the only real home she has ever known. People ... Read review

Advantages: This is a very powerful love story
Disadvantages: Only that it is a very long story

...opinion of this book " A House Divided". When i first started reading A house divided by catherine cookson i wasnt real thrilled it seemed like i had to go allmost over half way through this book to get into it? But once i made it over half way through i couldnt put it down! This book consist of 645 pages and was very long. Catherine Cookson has written about 19 books. For me this is the first one in her collection! This book will make u smile ,laugh, ...
...This is a very delightful love story that will touch your heart and keep u turning the pages with out ceasing! The Captain Matthew Wallington is a british soldier who lost his sight in a battle in the war. He was in a hospital for a long time injured and had shell shock. The marvelous Mrs. Duckworth is his nurse and gets him through his trama in the most enduring way. She is a lady in every way and a wonderful nurse and person! If not for Mrs. Duckworth ... Read review

Advantages: Good read, easy to get into, interesting characters
Disadvantages: Catherine Cookson's reputation for writing books for OAPs!

...I used to sneer at the shelves of Catherine Cookson novels in the library. There were always so many – how could an author who churned out all those novels expect them to be of any decent quality? An aspiring author myself, I was cynical about these books and saw no attraction in them. As far as I was concerned, they were devoured solely by the blue rinse brigade and held absolutely no interest to me, a woman in her thirties who loved a wide ...
...helping of chick lit in the middle. My mother-in-law works in the local library and often passes on the latest releases for me to read, before they go on the shelves for the unwashed masses to fight over. So it was that I came to have a Catherine Cookson novel in my possession, a weighty hardback entitled The Thursday Friend. Smirking, I knew exactly what to expect – a slushy historical romance, where some poor urchin overcomes the class ... Read review