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A Grand Man 

 (Mary Ann Shaughnessy, book 1)

by

Catherine CooksonA Grand Man (1954)
(The first book in the Mary Ann Shaughnessy series)
A novel by Catherine Cookson

 
'Me da's a grand man!' Mary Ann Shaughnessy has spoken; question her who dare. For although Mary Ann may look quite an ordinary small girl from a dockland tenement, always hot in defense of a ne'er-do-well father, she is in fact a one-man army, armoured with faith and possessed of formidable qualities.

Set on Tyneside, the part of the world which Catherine Cookson knew and understood so well, this heartwarming and humorously observed book skillfully weds an authentic and unsentimentalized background to the kind of fairytale story that we all like to believe could come true and which the Mary Ann Shaughnessys of this world know to be true.

The moral of A Grand Man is simply that faith can move mountains, but the delight of the book lies in the telling and in the character of its heroine as she battles, connives, and bargains to get a better way of life for those she loves and especially for the 'grand man' himself.

A Grand Man is the first of the Mary Ann stories and was made into a film, Jacqueline, in 1954.

Genre: Romance
 
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Hardback Editions

July 1984 : Hardback
Title: Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-356-01866-0 / 978-0-356-01866-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: Macdonald
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January 1976 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Bantam
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June 1975 : Hardback
Title: Grand Man (Ulverscroft large print series. [fiction])
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-85456-346-6 / 978-0-85456-346-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
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January 1975 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-688-00343-5 / 978-0-688-00343-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
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1974 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: MacDonald
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1958 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: MacDonald
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January 1955 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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1954 : Hardback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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Paperback Editions

December 1990 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0708843778Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-7088-4377-8 / 978-0-7088-4377-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
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1980 : Paperback
Title: Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Corgi
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1979 : Paperback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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1978 : Paperback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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1976 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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1974 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: A Grand Man
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1974 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B001KTQGLCTitle: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
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1973 : Paperback
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Corgi Books 1973
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November 1971 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0552088218Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-552-08821-8 / 978-0-552-08821-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Corgi, London
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1954 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: A grand man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Macdonald
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Audio Editions

1994 : Audio Cassette
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Chivers
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May 1992 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0745128009Title: A Grand Man [Complete & Unabridged]
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-7451-2800-9 / 978-0-7451-2800-9 (UK edition)
Publisher: ChiversAudiobooks Ltd
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June 1985 : Audio Cassette
Title: A Grand Man
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-8161-9750-4 / 978-0-8161-9750-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: G K Hall Audio Books
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May 1980 : Audio Cassette
Title: A Grand Man: Complete & Unabridged
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
ISBN: 0-7451-5845-5 / 978-0-7451-5845-7 (UK edition)
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Other Editions

March 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B004TO5OKETitle: A Grand Man (The Mary Ann Stories)
Author(s): Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Peach Publishing
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1983 : Unknown
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1954 : Unknown
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