TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson, Jacqueline,
AU  - Sharratt,Nick
TI  - Cookie
SN  - 9780552558310
AV  - PZ 
U1  - 823.914 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Doubleday Children's
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Runaway children
KW  - Runaway wives
KW  - Cooks
KW  - Self-realisation
N2  - Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly feels inferior to the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground, though, is the unpredictable, hurtful criticism from her father. Beauty and her meek, sweet mother live in uneasy fear of his fierce rages, sparked whenever they break one of his fussy house rules. Eventually, after an unbearable birthday party and the very real threat of Dad's out-of-control temper, Mum and Beauty run away. Finding themselves in a quiet, idyllic seaside village, their new-found freedom and a moment of culinary inspiration give them a hobby, an income and even a new nickname for Beauty. Can they begin a happier, sweeter life - without Dad?
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