For a Yorkshireman who has spent half a lifetime in his native pit village, moving south is a mixed blessing and it is where Richard Matthewman's memories begin as he looks back with affection, humour, and no small measure of exasperation at 42 summers - and bitter winters - in the Dales. From boyhood through adolescence to marriage and a family, his stories are filled with a rich gallery of characters - the relations, friends and village notables of a vital community filled with life and incident but as brittle and unmistakably northern as the coal seams on which it was built.
- ISBN10 0563394315
- ISBN13 9780563394310
- Publish Date 1 August 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 March 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Duration 3 hours
- Language English