9781326804749

Digging up the Pitmen

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9781326804749

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Overview

This is a family saga, over five generations, set against the social history of the South Yorkshire pit communities in the twentieth century: disasters, strikes and galas. It is the story of the North family: their relationships, births, deaths, family break-ups and get-togethers. Nigel North, at fifty-five, leads a secluded life in Newcastle after his wife's death. He has every expectation that it will stay that way until, in 1992, he receives a copy of the Last Will and Testament of his Uncle Albert, a South Yorkshire pitman who he has never met. He has been left a large sum of money. His ten cousins, of whom he has never heard, have each been left a much smaller sum. Nigel cannot conceive how his uncle knows of his existence, why he should bequeath him so much money and why his father severed himself from his family. The answers lie back in the pitmen's strike and, then, the inter-war years.

ISBN-13

9781326804749

ISBN-10

132680474X

Weight

0.84 Pounds

Dimensions

5.83 x 0.72 x 8.26 In

List Price

$11.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

310 pages

Publisher

lulu.com

Published On

2016-11-10



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