Book description
COPPER KINGDOM is set at the turn of the century in the South Wales
town of Sweyn's Eye - the old name for Swansea, where Iris Gower has
lived all her life. The story centres around two families and one woman.
The families clash through years of class welfare, drama, heartache and
love affairs, for in every way they stand opposed. The Richardsons are
copper barons - lords of the Sweyn's Eye copper smelting industry, rich,
powerful, facing only reluctantly the possibility that their wealth may
be in jeopardy as the demand for copper wanes. The Llewelyns are a poor
family, facing every day the prospect of unemployment and all its
attendant miseries - too poor to afford more than a pauper's funeral
when Mrs Llewelyn dies, too proud to allow the neighbours to know.
Linking these two very different families is one fiery and determined
woman - Mali Llewelyn. On her shoulders rest the burden of the family
fortunes. When she is offered a job in the local laundry she takes it -
determined to fight her way to prosperity as a businesswoman, while in
secret she battles with her hopeless love for Sterling Richardson, heir
to the copper kingdom of Sweyn's Eye.
