ASIN: B00ETYRX3A
Publisher: Queen's Park Editions
Pages: 390
When Crag Street, the grimy street of colliery houses where gossip reigned, tuberculosis killed, and mining families slaved to survive, is torn down and rebuilt in a museum, Rita receives an unexpected invitation to the Grand Opening. Reeling from a recent divorce, the visit forces her to relive painful memories about her early life on Crag Street and to finally face the man she’s loved all her life.Rita Hawkins fought all her life to escape from the hard life of Crag Street in North Eastern England. There she meets George, the last surviving son of a poor mining family forced against his wishes to start work as a miner. Her life becomes inextricably tied up with his but love eludes them, though events in their lives constantly throw them together. George the high-minded idealist gets caught up with the miner’s union, while cold, hard cash drives Rita, the pragmatist, towards ...
