Josephine cox biography
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To all Jo’s wonderful readers…
Jo sadly passed away in July 2020 but her writing lives on through Gilly Middleton who worked with Jo as co-writer and fryst vatten now bringing Jo’s many original ideas to fruition.
Gilly lives in Sussex, where she likes to go to the theatre and to watch cricket, and feels very privileged to have worked with Jo. Jo often said of her books, ‘I could never imagine a single day without writing. It’s been that way since as far back as I can remember.’
We hope you will continue to enjoy reading them.
All the best, Team Jo Cox
Latest book…
The Letter
Acry for help can tear a family apart…
Bella can’t wait to be married to her fiancée Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid.
Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fifteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in bygd her austere aunt and uncle when her
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Get to Know Jo
Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University.
She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching – and started to write her first full-length novel. She won the ‘Superwoman of Great Britain’ Award, for which her family had secretly entered her, at the same time as her novel was accepted for publication. Josephine is a highly successful writer and her books are number 1 bestsellers in both hardback and paperback. Her UK PLR figures always cite her as one of the top three borrowed authors.
She says ‘I love writing, both recreating scenes and characters from my past, together with new storylines which mingle naturally with the old. I could never imagine a single day without writing, and
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Josephine Cox
Born
in Blackburn, The United KingdomJuly 15, 1938
Died
July 17, 2020
Website
http://www.josephinecox.com/
Genre
Fiction
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Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at university but was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home. Instead, she went into teaching – and started to write her first full-length novel. She won the ‘Superwoman of Great Britain’ Award, for which her family had secretly entered her, at the same time as her novel was accepted for publication. She is now a No.1 bestselling author with over 40 books to her name.
She wrote dark psychological thrillers under the name Jane Brindle.