PhilippaDavies
Currently being made into a tv film for Boom Pictures.
Carys Evans is 17 years old, ambitious, clever and feisty. But she
is also the daughter of a mining family in South Wales, about to enter
the most violent industrial dispute of modern times.
Her mother starts a soup kitchen, her father becomes a strike leader
and her village, Aberelli, gets invaded by journalists, police officers
and strike provocateurs. Violence, intimidation and depravity prevail.
Carys's world gets changed in ways she would never have imagined.
Taking us from 1984 to 2009, this is a story of survival, sex,
aspiration and a fight to save community. Marrying the personal and
political, it is funny, sad and shocking - and resonates with the bigger
story of industrial decline in the final decades of the twentieth
century.
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