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Angela is correct: though the 'first publication date' in my paperback is 1968, the British Library catalogue says 1953. -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 05 October 2011 20:16 To: The Black and Asian Studies Association Cc: Marika Sherwood Subject: Re: Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind novel 1968? I thought it was first published in 1953. Compare Shelagh Delaney's 1956 'A Taste of Honey", set in 1950s Salford, and later made into a 1960s film starring Rita Tushingham --Angela Allison, Coventry UK "I know the one thing we did right, was the day we started to fight. Keep your eyes on the prize, Hold on!" ---- Marika Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I stumbled across Catherine Cookson's Colour Blind in one of our > charity shops. Cookson is a 'romantic' novelist so I had not read > anything by her, but thought this ought to be interesting. It > certainly is, if you want to see what 'message' such a popular novelist gave to her readers in 1968. > Briefly, it is the story of a working class woman who marries an > African seaman, has a 'coloured' daughter.. Very interesting attitudes. >