Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
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The 1920s are not proving a bright new era for the Geordie mining families of Whitton Grange. As her mother's bad chest worsens, young Louie Kirkup worries that she is doomed to become a spinster drudge, forever at the beck and call of her pitmen father and brothers. Until, that is, she sees Red Sam Ritson at the Durham Miners’ gala. But Sam is hardly an ideal husband - he is wedded to his fight to maintain miners’ rights against the ruthless encroachments of the pit-owners. Louie knows life with Sam will be dominated by struggle and as the General Strike looms she tries desperately to make a family home for Sam and their longed-for child . . .Latest Additions
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