01276cam a2200337 4500 516905022 TxAuBib 20170925120000.0 970415s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97018688 9780684842417 0684842416 (OCoLC)36767594 TxAuBib Cookson, Catherine. The obsession / Catherine Cookson. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997. p. cm. An Englishwoman's battle to hang on to her family's bankrupt estate. She is Beatrice, one of four daughters of a gambling landowner who died in debt. By hook or by crook, Beatrice intends to hang on to her patrimony, her schemes including marriage and busting other people's marriage. 20170925. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Obsessive-compulsive disorder Fiction. Father & daughter relationship Fiction. Young women Fiction. England, Northern Fiction. England, Northern. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Simon & Schuster, Inc. BTCLS