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The Fifteen Streets. Catherine Cookson's romance starring Sean Bean and Owen Teale. Set against the turbulent background of poverty, bigotry, and class division in Northern England at the turn of the 1900s, a Tyneside laborer and the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder find love, throwing both of their worlds into turmoil as they struggle to find ...
Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets Period Drama. Sean Bean and Jane Horrocks star in a feature-length adaptation of the best-selling novel. What chance do young lovers have in the North East of 1910? Sign in to watch. Recommended shows. Catherine Cookson's The Rag Nymph.
Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have captured the imaginations of readers around the globe. Now, available for the first time in this country, comes one of Cookson's earliest and most stirring historical romances: The Fifteen Streets.
Catherine Cookson was one of the world's most beloved writers. Her books have sold millions of copies, and her characters and their stories have captured the imaginations of readers around the globe. Now, available for the first time in this country, comes one of Cookson's earliest and most stirring historical romances: "The Fifteen Streets."
In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
Cookson, registered as Catherine Ann Davies, was born on 20 June 1906 [1] [2] at 5 Leam Lane [3] in Tyne Dock, South Shields, County Durham, England. She was known as "Katie" as a child. [4] She moved to East Jarrow, which would become the setting for one of her best-known novels, The Fifteen Streets. The illegitimate child of an alcoholic ...
Set in 1900 England, Fifteen Streets is about the gritty aspects of survival for a common dockworker, and those around him. This worker's journey is framed by both love, and tragedy.
