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Salt of the Earth

Salt of the Earth

Sally Spencer

Marston is based on salt - literally, for the mines that provide its living honeycomb the ground beneath its streets. Here Becky Taylor, a salt-miner's daughter, lives in the same village but a different world from the rich Worrell's - until her beauty catches Richard's roving eye.
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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.

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Title - Salt of the Earth

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Author - Sally Spencer

ISBN 13 - 9781857971460

Imprint - Orion mass market paperback

Publisher - Orion Publishing Co

Date Published - 04/03/1996

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 111 x 180 x 26mm

Weight - 227 g

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