Pit Bank Wench - Tapa dura

There's a tear in every chapter - Steve Craggs, Northern Echo A super tale that lingers long in the memory - Bolton Evening News Many bitter tears are shed - Books Magazine A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. - Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News 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 old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero - Beverley Guardian, (Driffield)

Emma is only a pit bank wench, but she wins 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 her, leaving her pregnant.