"'Kate's Daughter' gets to the heart of the Catherine Cookson story. With the help of material made available since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon lifts the veil on the myth and lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman. What emerges is a fresh docuementary portrait, shot through with a psychological dimension that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown and fed the very darkest veins of autobiography in her novels"--Back cover.