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About the Book

'I warn you, and it is a solemn warning. Leave me, and you - and who ever you run to - will suffer. I have a husband's rights under God's law: "and those whom God has joined together let no man break asunder." ' It is 1905 and in Pontypridd and the Rhondda, coal is king and the families who sank the first collieries are rich. Though no one is wealthier than Harry Watkin Jones. At 20, his daughter Sali is about to marry businessman Mansel in Pontypridd's wedding of the year. But tragedy follows tragedy, and four short and traumatic years later, Sali becomes a penniless outcast fleeing from a violent husband and struggling to support herself and her son in a world very different to the one she once knew. When she becomes housekeeper to a family of colliers, Sali finds herself denying her roots, her class and sacrificing her son's future to be with the people she has come to love.

About the Author :
Catrin Collier was born and brought up in Pontypridd. She worked for a while in Europe and America before returning to her native Wales. She now lives on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea, with her family.

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This was a convincing story with a host of well-drawn characters, from all levels of society. It was difficult to put down. - HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW In Beggars & Choosers, Catrin Collier shows us that she knows the streets of Pontyprydd and the Rhonda like no one else. The concrete reality of the streets, shops and houses sits easily on the pages of this meticulously-researched novel, warming the hearts I am sure of the millions of readers in the Welsh diaspora... the luscious, sensual detail of the Collier novel and also the highly personal attachment to its region that characterises Beggars and Choosers. - MSLEXIA Another typically enjoyable novel from the pen of Wales' answer to Catherine Cookson.*** - BOOKCASE Catrin Collier, the author of numerous popular and critically acclaimed novels has brought us yet another winner! - SOUTH WALES ECHO Catrin Collier brings this era and people to life. She makes it possible to imagine the living conditions of the people at that time and the class divide between the wealthy and the poor. - SOUTH WALES ARGUS Beggars & Choosers is quite graphic in parts, but that fits in with the gritty reality of the age. I enjoyed the book as a whole. - GWENT GAZETTE


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780752853147
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Orion
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Spine Width: 42 mm
  • Width: 154 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0752853147
  • Publisher Date: 16 Oct 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 625 gr


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