The Miner’s Daughters

Wolverhampton, 1860In the heart of the Black Country, one tragic accident is about toshatter a family forever.Fifteen-year-old Jenny Ryder knows she has a lot to be grateful for.Insulated from the grinding hardship that surrounds her by the graft ofher beloved miner father Gerald, she can spend her days revelling in herpassion for drawing and getting to know handsome cut-rat Ben Johnson andcharming Romany Lazlo.But when there’s a devastating accident at the colliery, everythingchanges. Plunged into sudden poverty and with her mother Evie paralysedby grief, it falls to Jenny to keep the family from the workhouse. Butthe tough streets of Wolverhampton are unforgiving, and her greatestenemy might just be her own bitterly jealous sister, Sophie.As the sisters’ rivalry threatens to tear the family apart, a sinistershadow from their mother’s past begins to stalk the Ryder women. JackMontague is a ruthless man who always gets what he wants and his sightsare set on Evie.Can Jenny, Ben and Lazlo protect her fragile family from ruin? Or willdark secrets and a dangerous man destroy them all?Readers love Lindsey Hutchinson:’I always look forward to a book by Lindsey Hutchinson as I did forthose by her mother. She has taken on the legacy and excelled herself inmy opinion.’’Another brilliant book by this author. Family saga at its best.Emotional and heartwarming at the same time.’