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The Invisible Cord by Catherine Cookson tells the powerful, decades-long story of Annie Cooper and her complex, ultimately destructive bond with her firstborn son, Rance, set against the backdrop of Tyneside life, exploring deep maternal love, hardship, and the struggle to make sense of life, even as Rance’s troublesome nature binds and suffocates both him and his mother.

Annie Cooper married Georgie McCabe for one reason only, she was expecting his child. Four children were born to Annie but it was the first who held her heart in the hollow of his hand. From early childhood, Rance was a problem. There were traits in his character hard to excuse or understand, but whatever trouble he got into, Annie would forgive him. They were bound together by a cord, invisible, yet strong enough to become the noose for both of them.