{"product_id":"simple-soul-and-other-stories-9780593041222","title":"Simple Soul And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis warm-hearted collection of stories are the last unpublished works of fiction written by Catherine Cookson.  This treasure trove of talent is set against the background of places already familiar to Catherine Cooksons countless readers -- the North-East  the South Coast and London  with a time-scale stretching from the 1920s 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 others 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 the 1980s  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 makes up her mind to escape from her familys domestic exploitation of her. The reader catches a glimpse behind the scenes in a large department store  and learns of the havoc that a husbands passion for cricket can cause.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924578009141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593041224","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593041222.jpg?v=1794137282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/simple-soul-and-other-stories-9780593041222","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}