It's the 1840s in a Victorian mining town and disaster is about to strike. For John Elliot and his family, life in the shadow of the grinding colliery wheel has always been hard, but there is no alternative for folk like them. The risks are huge and the rewards are few. The Elliots are about to discover the real cost of daring to dig deeper than worms will ever go...
- ISBN10 0750236310
- ISBN13 9780750236317
- Publish Date 17 January 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 May 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English