Barry Hines captures the raw soul of the pit in a novel that is tough and uncompromising as Kes.
The Milton colliery exacts its daily toll of sweat and fear from the men who grope down its dark tunnels. Beer, snooker,rose-growing in the allotment and Geoff Boycott are sacrificed to the imperatives of clawing coal from the earth.
A visit by the Prince of Wales only gently interrupts its well-oiled-machinery - soft soap in the gents, grass hastily transplanted to the slag heap, lashings of white paint - although it is an occasion for some ripe and well-aimed humour.
But when disaster strikes, the laughter fades, and the horror takes over.
'A rare novel that stands out' - New Statesman
'Lucid, visual and immediate... Hines brings it all chillingly close' - Books and Bookmen
Genre: General Fiction
The Milton colliery exacts its daily toll of sweat and fear from the men who grope down its dark tunnels. Beer, snooker,rose-growing in the allotment and Geoff Boycott are sacrificed to the imperatives of clawing coal from the earth.
A visit by the Prince of Wales only gently interrupts its well-oiled-machinery - soft soap in the gents, grass hastily transplanted to the slag heap, lashings of white paint - although it is an occasion for some ripe and well-aimed humour.
But when disaster strikes, the laughter fades, and the horror takes over.
'A rare novel that stands out' - New Statesman
'Lucid, visual and immediate... Hines brings it all chillingly close' - Books and Bookmen
Genre: General Fiction
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