Redemption Song (38 page)

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What lines would you cross for the ones you love?

Yorkshire 1983. Miner’s wife Mandy is stuck in a rut. At twenty-three, and trapped by domesticity, she wants more from life. Husband Rob is a good-looking drinker, content to spend his days in the small town where they’ve always lived – where Mandy can’t do anything other than bake cakes and raise her children.

When Mandy’s childhood friend, beautiful, clever Ruth, and Ruth’s war hero husband, Dan, return to town, their homecoming is shrouded in mystery. Mandy looks to Ruth for inspiration – but Ruth isn’t all she appears.

As conflict with the Coal Board turns into war, the men come out on strike. The community and its whole way of life is threatened, and as the strike rumbles on, relationships are pushed to the brink, and Mandy finds out just who she is – and who her true friends are.

Published by Accent Press Ltd 2016

ISBN 9781783758685

Copyright © Laura Wilkinson 2016

The right of Laura Wilkinson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

The story contained within this book is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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