TY - BOOK AU - Cookson,Catherine TI - The slow awakening SN - 9780754031017 (hbk.) : PY - 1998/// CY - Bath PB - Chivers KW - Domestic fiction KW - Large type books KW - General KW - ukslc KW - Modern & contemporary fiction KW - thema KW - Generational sagas N1 - Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1976 N2 - When orphaned Kirsten MacGregor grows up, her beauty is marred by a cast in one eye. The locals' prejudice causes her to be sold to a travelling tinker who gets her pregnant. She is rescued to bear her child, and a strange bargain follows ER -