 |  | | | Josephine Cox | Tuesday 9 October 2001 | | |
Josephine Cox can remember eating only one proper meal a week and sleeping six in a bed - but the experiences and the people she has met in her childhood have been turned into gold.
The successful novelist has used her early life as an inspiration for her many novels.
She talks to Jenni about her latest - The Woman Who Left based on growing up in Blackburn in the middle of the last century.
The Woman Who Left (Headline, ISBN: 0747271542, £16.99)
New autobiography: Josephine Cox, Child of the North - Memories of a Northern Childhood by Piers Dudgeon and Josephine Cox (Headline, ISBN: 07553 10047, £18.99).
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