Every day is difficult and I dare say it will be that way for a long time yet and maybe it will never get easier, but it is comforting to know that so many of you, my loyal friends and readers, have included Ken and me in your thoughts and prayers.
I want to thank my family from the bottom of my heart. Warm, wonderful people I am privileged to belong to, it would take a book to mention each and every one of you, but you know how very much I love you all, and always have. We’re there for each other when it matters and, God willing, always will be. What would I do without you, eh?
Among the many old and new friends who were there for me, I include those at my present publishers, HarperCollins, and my previous publishers, Headline. And those of you at Gillon Aitken. Thank you so much for caring.
I want also to say how touched and moved I am by all of the wonderful letters I have received from you, the readers. They arrived in their thousands, and though I have managed to answer most of them in order, I am still replying to a bundle every day.
My gratitude and thanks to every one of you. You have all helped me more than you could ever realise.
For those of you who write and tell me how you have not been fortunate enough to have the support of family in your time of need, please look on me as someone you can talk to, whenever you feel the need.
God bless. Take care,
Josephine
OTHER WORKS
Also by Josephine Cox
QUEENIE’S STORY
Her Father’s Sins
Let Loose the Tigers
THE EMMA O’GRADY TRILOGY
Outcast
Alley Urchin
Vagabonds
Angels Cry Sometimes
Take This Woman
Whistledown Woman
Don’t Cry Alone
Jessica’s Girl
Nobody’s Darling
Born to Serve
More than Riches
A Little Badness
Living a Lie
The Devil You Know
A Time for Us
Cradle of Thorns
Love Me or Leave Me
Tomorrow the World
The Gilded Cage
Somewhere, Someday
Rainbow Days
Looking Back
Let it Shine
Born Bad
Divorced and Deadly
Blood Brothers
Midnight
Three Letters.
The Woman Who Left
Jinnie
Bad Boy Jack
The Beachcomber
Live the Dream
The Journey
Journey’s End
The Loner
Songbird
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching – and started to write her first full-length novel. She won the ‘Superwoman of Great Britain’ Award, for which her family had secretly entered her, at the same time as her novel was accepted for publication.
Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life. Josephine says, ‘I could never imagine a single day without writing. It’s been that way since as far back as I can remember.’
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