The hiring fair
Original title: The Hiring Fair
earliest edition we have, 1976 Pan Books, 1978 paperback 430 pages
Set in the Scotland of the bleak 1870s, in the Colliery at Blacklaw, the dangerous work has taken the lives of many men. But the Stalkers dream of a better future. In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies law, determined never to return to the grinding poverty of his childhood. In the colliery town of Blacklaw the pit owner makes sure he gets every last ounce of profit from his pit men. And the Stalkers who remain in Black...
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