The Spoiled Earth

By Jessica Stirling

Subjects: Women, Fiction, general, Scotland, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, family life, Coal miners, Villages, Fiction, Coal mines and mining, Fiction in English

Description: The mining disaster of 1875 killed the men of the Stalker family, but it could not kill their ambitions, pride, or love for one another. Alex Stalker's last command was to forge a better life for Drew, his only surviving son, but the burden of this was to fall on his daughter, Kate.