JUST A SAYING
Book ID/图书代码： 12100005B08455
English Summary/英文概要： This collection of poems draws on many themes that will be familiar to the readers of Catherine Cookson’s novels: love, work, class and the beauty of nature. She also shares more personal thoughts, reflections on her own writing, marriage to her beloved Tom and life in the north of England.
From the earliest poem included here, written in 1925 when Catherine Cookson was nineteen years old, to poems written just before her death in 1998, this anthology spans the gamut of her life and work. The poems are characterized by her down-to-earth common sense and the hard-won philosophy she developed for herself. In ’Brushed Nylon’ she tackles the subject of a failed relationship while ’The Daily Round’ takes a look at working life. In more personal moments poems such as ’Slow Me Down’ talk of her feelings about growing old and ’The Joy of the Country’ recalls a holiday in Wales.
Catherine Cookson remains one of the nation’s favourite storytellers. She completed an astonishing 104 works in her lifetime, books which continue to bring pleasure to millions of readers. Just A Saying is her final work to be published and shows Catherine Cookson at her most intimate and inspirational.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这部诗歌集引用了许多读者所熟悉的主题, 凯瑟琳•库克森的小说中的: 爱情、工作、阶级和大自然的美。她还与读者分享了更多个人的思想, 对自己的作品, 与爱人在英格兰的北部婚姻生活的反思。
从最早的诗开始, 当凯瑟琳•库克森十九岁时，写于1925年的诗, 直至作者在1998年去世之前的诗集,这部选集涵盖了她的生活和工作。她的诗源自作者真实的感受和她给自己所拓展而出的，来之不易的哲学思想。在“拉过绒的尼龙”的诗句中，她描述了当“日常事务”与工作生活相纠葛时，一个失败的关系的主题。更多的具有个人色彩主题的诗歌，诸如“放慢脚步’中，谈论的是关于随着岁月的逝去的感觉，和在威尔士一次愉快的度假回忆。
凯瑟琳•库克森一直以来都是英国最受读者欢迎的小说家。在她有生之年，一共完成了惊人的104部作品,书籍,时至如今，她的作品仍然带给数百万读者无尽的愉悦。《只是一句话》的是她最后发表的作品，这部作品展示了凯瑟琳最为巅峰的才华。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 凯瑟琳•库克森在1906年出生于凯蒂马克穆伦（Katie McMullen），四十岁时才开始写作，但在九十多岁辞世时已写下逾90本书。她生长在泰恩河畔，周围是贫瘠的梯田，这成为她许多作品的背景。她的小说以19世纪的生活为背景，场景往往设定在采矿场、造船场、农场及附近的乡郊，描写英格兰东北部人民的爱情、悲哀、艰辛和战胜灾难的喜悦。尽管她的小说生动描写了英格兰东北部的生活，但实际上她在22岁时便已移居南部沿海城市哈士汀（Hastings）定居，直到70多岁时才重返故里。
南泰恩塞德区是极具“凯瑟琳库克森风格”的乡郊，处处可见她曾亲身经历及小说中描写的景象和场景，包括历史悠久、风景如画的维斯托村（Westoe Village），位于南希尔兹(South Shields)中心的恬静之所。她的许多作品均以此地为背景，如凯蒂穆赫兰德（Katie Mulholland）、凯特汉尼根（Kate Hannigan）及哈罗格街（Harrogate Street）。圣彼得及圣保罗（St Peter and St Paul）教堂是凯瑟琳年轻时做礼拜的地方，她的小说《鲁尼》（Rooney）对此有过描述。
滨海单车径(Coast to Coast Cycle Route)末段沿泰恩河穿过该地区北部，直达纽卡索（Newcastle）。哈德里安城墙国家步道(Hadrian’s Wall Path National Trail)穿过纽卡索，沿泰恩河而行，可通往附近的乡郊。
Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master.
Although 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 of contemporary women novelists.
After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, in 1997.
For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.
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