Book description
One look was enough. Amy Watkins and miner 'Big' Tom Kelly were in
love. But can they keep their feelings secret or face the threat of
death in a community torn apart by the miner's strike? Tonypandy,
South Wales, 1911. Starving, striking miners fight soldiers and police
on the picket lines for the right to earn a wage that will feed their
families, while Irish labourers are brought in the take their place in
the pits, for half their pay. Handsome 'Big' Tom Kelly, an Irish
worker, comes to Wales looking for a better life and believes he has
found it when he falls in love with Amy Watkins, the daughter of a
strike leader. At night, the miners search out the Irish men, drag
them from their beds, beat them and then hang them from the street
lamp posts. Can Amy and Tom keep their love a secret forever? All they
want is a future together. But in a world full of hatred, anger and
violence, their dream seems impossible. Until another strike leader
offers them a way out.
Catrin Collier is Wales' most prolific and well-known authors of
historical, romantic fictions. The daughter of a Prussian refugee and
Welsh father, she grew up in Pontypridd. She has written 19 novels for
Orion. Her first historical novel Hearts of Gold, was filmed as a
mini-series by the BBC in 2003. She lives with her family on the Gower
Peninsula, near Swansea. She also writes crime fiction under the pen
name Katherine John.
