The Mallen Girl Author:Catherine Cookson NO DUSTJACKET — The second novel of a trilogy following THE MALLEN STREAK which brings the history of the Mallens of High Banks Hall, Northumberland, into the present century. This story follows the life of Barbara, known as "the Mallen girl", who even as a child was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed... more » it. She was going deaf. Yet her silent world protected her from waht could be a worse affliction - to know the truth of her origins.« less