"Kathleen Jones is a skilled and subtle biographer, who has written
grippingly and with great empathy about female hardship and creativity"
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PAMELA NORRIS, Literary Review
"One of the strengths of this thoughtful, sympathetic biography is the way it reminds the reader of the destructive social insecurities of the recent past. . . It is a dramatic and unsettling story and Jones tells it with quiet tact." Read More
ANNE CHISHOLM Sunday Telegraph
"Jones is probing but gentle. She leads us gently through the life until she reaches the moment when she can ask what she calls the serious questions, the ones at the core of Cookson's character"
BERYL KINGSTON, The Express on Sunday
"Kathleen Jones biography displays all the Cookson virtues. Her narrative is uncluttered and direct, her analysis complex and sometimes surprising. Most importantly she never condescends to her subject." Read More
KATHERYN HUGHES, Daily Telegraph
"This is such a bravura exercise in biography, I would suggest Kathleen Jones not only wins her case but should be awarded costs." Read More
CHARLOTTE CORY, Times Literary Supplement"
PAMELA NORRIS, Literary Review
"One of the strengths of this thoughtful, sympathetic biography is the way it reminds the reader of the destructive social insecurities of the recent past. . . It is a dramatic and unsettling story and Jones tells it with quiet tact." Read More
ANNE CHISHOLM Sunday Telegraph
"Jones is probing but gentle. She leads us gently through the life until she reaches the moment when she can ask what she calls the serious questions, the ones at the core of Cookson's character"
BERYL KINGSTON, The Express on Sunday
"Kathleen Jones biography displays all the Cookson virtues. Her narrative is uncluttered and direct, her analysis complex and sometimes surprising. Most importantly she never condescends to her subject." Read More
KATHERYN HUGHES, Daily Telegraph
"This is such a bravura exercise in biography, I would suggest Kathleen Jones not only wins her case but should be awarded costs." Read More
CHARLOTTE CORY, Times Literary Supplement"