Journey's End (35 page)

JOURNEY’S END

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, and it’s been that way since as far back as I can remember.’

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are
the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is
entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by
HarperCollins
Publishers
2006

Josephine Cox asserts the moral right to
be identified as the author of this work

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