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A paperback edition of the second novel in a trilogy set in 19th-century Scotland. In the colliery town of Blacklaw the pit owner makes sure he gets every last ounce of profit from his pit men, but he goes too far and the coalfields erupt in a violent and bloody riot. Follows THE SPOILED EARTH.
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Jessica Stirling weaves a vigorous, unsentimental picture of late Victorian life (Scotsman)
Magnificent...a moving novel (Scottish Country Press)
A vivid picture of hard times, particularly impressive on socail history of the era (Sunday Times)
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Magnificent...a moving novel (Scottish Country Press)
A vivid picture of hard times, particularly impressive on socail history of the era (Sunday Times)
The second novel in the Stalker Trilogy which began with The Spoiled Earth and continues with The Dark Pasture, set in the Lanarkshire mining village of Blacklaw in the bleak 1870s.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 034020706X
- ISBN 13 9780340207062
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages488
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The hiring fair: A novel
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