{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "goodreads: Every once in a while, circumstance traps a group of people in a pattern of tragedy and violence from which they struggle vainly to fight free. Thus it was with the Master of Cock Shield Farm, Angus McBain, a man too easily tempted to sin, and those in and around his household.\r\nABOUT: Catherine Cookson: Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, who Catherine believed was her older sister. Catherine began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master.\r\nAlthough 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 contemporary woman novelist. She received an OBE in 1985, was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. *For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne.*"}, "links": [{"url": "https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/426956.Feathers_in_the_Fire?ac=1&from_search=true", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "goodreads REVIEWS"}], "title": "Feathers In The Fire", "covers": [8284942], "subject_places": ["Northern England", "England"], "subjects": ["Fiction", "Working class", "Social life and customs", "Unmarried mothers", "Man-woman relationships", "Manners", "Customs", "Social classes", "Fiction, general"], "key": "/works/OL48529W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL21256A"}}], "subject_times": ["1881-1899"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "latest_revision": 16, "revision": 16, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-15T11:55:34.777519"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-03-24T22:48:37.501683"}}