Colour Blind - Softcover

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Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many best-selling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

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Although poor, the McQueen family are an upbeat bunch. Life might not be a picnic but they've learnt to take the rough with the smooth and are all the more strong for it. And yet, when Bridget McQueen brings home her African husband, James, their tolerance is sorely tested. What will the neighbours say?

Bridget is determined to stand by her man and subsequently sparks a family feud with terrible, far-reaching consequences that none of them would have guessed at. And as Bridget and James' daughter Rosie grows up, she finds the world a very difficult and dangerous place indeed ...

Colour Blind is a compelling, relevant page-turner about the dangers of racial tension and prejudice and the redeeming power of love.