The Whip Author:Catherine Cookson In The Whip, Catherine Cookson takes us to Tyneside, a remote pastoral region in northern England where the rugged countryside capricious elements and brutal inewuities of the nineteenth-century class structure make life a matter of simple survival for all who come to live there, with one exception. — Emma Molinero is the orphan daughter of a loc... more »al farm girl and an itinerant Spanish carnival performer. Sent to live with her maternal grandmother agter her father's death, Emma must suddenly adjust to the bitterness of life in Tyneside. The graceful young Emma becomes a woman whose fiery independence and skill at performing with the whips-- here father's only legacy-make her a figure of mysterious fascination to the suspicious villagers among whom she must live. To save her honor and her life, Emma must turn to the whips of her childhood.« less