Used very good, book club edition.
This Sweet
and Bitter Earth
There are few novelists in the world today who
can re-create history with the passion and
reality of Alexander Cordell ; he breathes life
into his characters and they give life to an
age.
In THIS SWEET AND BITTER EARTH he
has created an unforgettable character in an
unignorable period. Eighty years ago, in
Wales, the men who worked the slate out of
the quarries in the North lived dangerous,
unhealthy, underpaid lives; as a boy Toby
Davies joined them. In the bitter struggle
for their Workers' Combination, to set their
rights against the Owners' conditions, he
learned about the dignity of man; before the
hearth, and in the riotous communion of the
streets, he learned love- from Bron, and
Nanwen O'Hara.