โ Scribed by Cookson, Catherine
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
'Me da's a grand man!' Mary Ann Shaughnessy has spoken; question her who dare. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small girl from a dockland tenement, always hot in defense of a ne'er-do-well father, she is in fact a one-man army, armoured with faith and possessed of formidable qualities.
Set on Tyneside, the part of the world which Catherine Cookson knew and understood so well, this heartwarming and humorously observed book skillfully weds an authentic and unsentimentalized background to the kind of fairytale story that we all like to believe could come true and which the Mary Ann Shaughnessys of this world know to be true.
The moral of A Grand Man is simply that faith can move mountains, but the delight of the book lies in the telling and in the character of its heroine as she battles, connives, and bargains to get a better way of life for those she loves and especially for the 'grand man' himself.
A Grand Man is the first of the Mary Ann stories and was made into a film, Jacqueline, in 1954.
ES Index : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
All Identifiers : amazon:0708843778, goodreads:670443, google:sDc4AAAACAAJ, isbn:9780552088213
Test Text Series Index: Series
Single Author : Catherine Cookson
Original Source : New_Train_Pack_2019-082
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Cookson, Catherine
Title Length : 011
Title Parm D : A Grand Man
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ES Lib Name : NIRC 2019-07
Record ID : 8874
Template Work Area : Series
ES Name : Mary Ann Series
Uncomma Author : Catherine Cookson
Title Parm A : A Grand Man
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