Salt of the Earth: A superbly nostalgic and heartwarming saga of families, hope and drama

The first novel in the wonderful East End saga from the author of UP OUR STREET

Becky Taylor is born the last of seven children into a poor working class family during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution. Her mother is exhausted by poverty and child-bearing; her father has given the best years of his life to Worrells salt works as a miner. But in spite of the hardships, Becky grows up in a family full of warmth, loyalty and determination.

Spanning twenty, this is at once a family saga an...