Our Kate is the moving personal story of Catherine Cookson. It revolves around the figure of her mother, Kate - a young, unmarried woman who struggled to survive in the North East under hard and primitive conditions. Against this background we see the young Catherine going to 'the pawn', fetching the beer, being ignored because of her illegitimacy, collecting driftwood from the river and coke as it fell from the gas-carts, for she lived through a time when work was scarce and social security non-existent.

Given to a freecycler who needed some reading matter.