Pit Bank Wench - Tapa blanda

This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph * This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) * Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine * A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo * Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post * This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter. * Northern Echo *

A compelling tale of good and evil for fans of Josephine Cox. Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but her corn-coloured hair and blue eyes win the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes Emma, leaving her isolated and pregnant with his bastard child. It looks as though she is destined for the workhouse, but there are kindly folk in Wednesbury: Emma is taken in by butcher Samuel Hollington and his wife and gives birth to her son, Paul, under their care. But Carver Felton has not forgotten the girl he wronged. Once he has ruthlessly achieved his business ambitions, he turns his attentions to finding an heir to the Felton fortune - and he determines to track down Emma and her child.