The Simple Soul and Other Stories

I will write 1 review for all the books by Catherine Cookson. I used to have all her books in hard cover but do to losing some side I donated them to the vets for sale. There is not one book I could critisize. Her books are heartwarming. Everyone and it Broke my heart to give them away and then I see them on Amazon and for such a low price that I can afford to buy them all back little by little and Amazon Alexa reads them to me. I have some joy in my old age. Some of the books will make u cry. I have some of them on DVD but England has. More that I would buy but I can't play them here in the US. I hope more people read them from teenagers to old ladies like me. If she were alive I would tell her that.

A great selection of Catherine Cookson short stories. Well worth it. Can be enjoyed in between other books as they are not heavy or long.

No comment here. If your a Catherine Cookson reader, you already know you want this book as well as many others.

Good book

Delivered on time and quality was as stated.

Ordered for my Momma and she loves it!

This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cookson's countless readers - the North-East, the South Coast and London, with a time-scale stretching from the 1920's to the present day.In the title story, a disillusioned husband decides to call on an office colleague he has always slightly despised, and finds himself having to re-evaluate his own family relationships in the light of what he discovers in the other's home. In the three stories that make up `The Forbidden Word', the first set in the 1920s, the second in the 1950s and the third in the1980s, Catherine Cookson traces the changes in attitudes to marriage and pregnancy that have taken place in the last eighty years.In other stories a shy bachelor begins to make friends for the first time in his life among the people who like himself have taken refuge from the Blitz in the London Underground, and a much put-upon young woman who makes up her own mind to escape from her family's domestic exploitation of her. The reader catches a glimpse behind the scenes in a large department store, and learns of the havoc that a husband's passion for cricket can cause.

Some of the stories brought a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye .but overall lovely stories

All Catherine Cookson books are brilliant

Excellent as always