Product 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #206672 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Great Quick Read
Love these quick reads for when you're in between books but don't want to get into a big novel. Brilliant as always!

Quick reads are fabulous
These quick reads are perfect as a taster for people who struggle with literacy or who want to know more about an author. I thoroughly recommend them

Well worth it.
I saw this in a supermarket not looking for anything but when I saw the author I new it would be good. It's not worthy of a quick read it should be made into a full novel as so much has to be explored. I would have loved if some of the characters from her 'Pontypridd' series popped up in their younger years. But altogether a well though out story.