Salt of the Earth

by Sally Spencer

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Becky Taylor is born the last of seven children into a poor working class familyduring the heyday of the Industrial Revolution. Her mother is exhausted by poverty and child-bearing; her father has given the best years of his life to worrells salt works as a miner. But in spite of the hardships, Becky grows up in a family full of warmth, loyalty and determination. Spanning twenty, this is at once a family saga and a story of the indomitable working class spirit; it is also the story of a beautiful women who is determinated to rise about her origins and lead a better life. Her challenge isto achieve her dreams without losing the friends and family to whom she owes everything.
  • ISBN10 1857971469
  • ISBN13 9781857971460
  • Publish Date 4 March 1996 (first published 9 September 1993)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 July 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Orion mass market paperback
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 368
  • Language English