{"product_id":"dinner-of-herbs-by-catherine-cookson","title":"Dinner Of Herbs by Catherine Cookson","description":"\u003cp\u003eA legacy of hatred can be a terrible force in life, over which not even an enduring love and all the fruits of material success may prevail.  Catherine Cookson explores this theme in a major novel that will absorb and enthral her readers as irresistibly as any she has written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807.  Within hours of their arrival, however, the father had met a violent death, and the boy was left with all memory gone of his past life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace, Roddy found his closest companions in Hal Roystan and Mary Ellen Lee.  These three stand at the heart of a richly eventful narrative that spans the first half of the nineteenth century, their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and somewhat cruel destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA DINNER OF HERBS displays outstandingly Catherine Cookson's true storyteller's gift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Paperback edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43583322030154,"sku":"2920aa","price":6.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/2920aa_c91959a0-2ce2-4248-bac1-ba2662e02081.jpg?v=1779853514","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/dinner-of-herbs-by-catherine-cookson","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}