The Poison Glen【電子書籍】[ Gillian Rothwell Rose ]

＜p＞Reaching across time, this book follows the lives of two women, their families, and their generations that followed. People from entirely different walks of life, their lives are inexorably joined together by love, hate and the hand of fate. Beginning in the late 1800’s, the northern England town of Wigan, due to its industries of cotton mills and coal mines, was permanently shrouded in a cloud of poisonous black smog, her rivers running with the ooze of industry. The county of Yorkshire was just sixty miles west of Wigan, but it might have been a world away. Here the countryside was lush and green, with rolling ridges of woods dipping down to broad valleys, where farms nestled in rich fields. Even though there were coal mines in the county of Yorkshire, they had not yet scarred the landscape or polluted the sky with their great clouds of grime. Mary Ann Oxley was born into poverty in the town of Wigan, where the booming Industrial Revolution, while bringing wealth to some, brought ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る