
Pit Bank Wench by Meg Hutchinson
Making Limonada is a memoir of life in a Mediterranean village during the last decade of Franco's Fascist Spain. In flight from her own family's tragedy, the American author discovers a country grieving its own terrible losses from the Spanish Civil War, (1936-1939). In addition to stories of raising her family in small town village life, she also relates stories of the villagers in the aftermath of the years of hunger and retribution that followed their war.
There's a tear in every chapter* Northern Echo *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News *
Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News *
Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Ever since she was a child, she has loved telling stories and writing 'compositions'. She lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives, but now has a quiet little cottage in Shropshire where she can indulge her passion for storytelling.
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ISBN 13 | 9780340696903 |
ISBN 10 | 0340696907 |
Title | Pit Bank Wench |
Author | Meg Hutchinson |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Year published | 2000-06-01 |
Number of pages | 496 |
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