Josephine Cox (15 July 1938 – 17 July 2020) also known as Jo Cox,
was an English author. Her books were frequently best sellers and the UK
Public Lending Rights figures often listed her in the top three borrowed authors.
Biography
Born in a millworker's house in
Blackburn
Blackburn () is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England. The town is north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, east of Preston and north-n ...
, Lancashire, Cox was one of the ten children of an alcoholic father. At the age of sixteen, she met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When her children started school, she went to college, eventually being offered a place at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
. She was unable to accept the Cambridge place because it would have meant living away from home and went on to become a teacher.
Cox won the "Superwoman of Great Britain Award", for which her family had secretly entered her when her first full-length novel was accepted for publication.
Cox also wrote under the name Jane Brindle, her mother's name. Altogether she wrote over 50 books.
Selected works
*''The Beachcomber'' (2013)
HarperCollins
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*''The Broken Man'' (2013) HarperCollin
*''The Runaway Woman'' (2014) HarperCollin
*''Two Sisters'' (2020) HarperCollin
References
External links
Josephine Cox Books Official WebsiteJosephine Cox at Fantastic Fiction
1941 births
2020 deaths
People from Blackburn
English women novelists
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