The Mallen Girl Author:Catherine Cookson Although she lacks the streak of white hair that distinguishes the Mallen men, Barbara is a true Mallen, willful, hottempered and imperious. She is also alarmingly beautiful. Yet despite this, as she enters her teens, she is the object of sympathy and concern, for she has become almost totally deaf. — Now the impoverished ward of her former gov... more »erness, the indomitable Anna Brigmore, she finds it easy to use her affliction to get her own way. When she falls in love with her first cousin and insists he return her affections, nothing, not his mother's opposition, nor Miss Birgmore's misgivings, nor the renewed threat of incest, will stop her in their headstrong pursuit of tragedy.« less