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‘Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece’ Sunday Mirror
Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bring with them brutal consequences...
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Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bring with them brutal consequences...
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"Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece" (Sunday Mirror)
"Compulsively readable" (Irish Examiner)
"Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story" (Daily Mail)
"Beautifully, even lovingly, told" (Scotsman)
"There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story" (Guardian)
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"Compulsively readable" (Irish Examiner)
"Hill deploys her not inconsiderable power to weave a haunting story" (Daily Mail)
"Beautifully, even lovingly, told" (Scotsman)
"There is something Hardyesque in the tragic momentum of this story" (Guardian)
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- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 009953956X
- ISBN 13 9780099539568
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