'Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece' Sunday MirrorBrother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit.
A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
'Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece' Sunday Mirror
Brother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. They know nothing of the outside world, though both of them yearn for escape. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit. But neither can truly break free and their decisions bring with them brutal consequences...
'Gripping all the way to its unexpected end' Spectator
Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece
Sunday Mirror
Nominiert: East Anglian Book Award for Fiction, 2014
SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include
Strange Meeting,
I'm the King of the Castle,
In the Springtime of the Year and
The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story
The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
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'Powerful... Poignant, bleak and haunting, this is a small masterpiece' Sunday MirrorBrother and sister, Ted and Rose Howker, grew up in Mount of Zeal, a mining village blackened by coal. For Rose this comes in the form of love, while Ted seizes the chance of a job away from the pit.
A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
