Pit Bank Wench - Softcover

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.

This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph * This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) * 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 * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine * A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo * 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 tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter. * Northern Echo *