TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, Diane.
TI  - The miner's wife
SN  - 1509895205
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Farmers
KW  - England
KW  - Yorkshire Dales
KW  - Family-owned business enterprises
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Yorkshire Dales (England)
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "Seventeen-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. Growing up, she's always sensed her father's disappointment at not having a son to help with the farm work. So when Meg dances all night at the local market hall with Sam Alderson, a lead miner from Swaledale, a new light enters her life. Sam and his brother Jack show Meg a side to life she didn't know existed. But when her parents find out, she's forbidden from ever seeing them again. Although where there is love, there is often a way. When Meg's uncle offers her the chance of helping to run the small village shop, she leaps at the opportunity, seeing it as a way to escape the oppressive family farm and see more of her beloved Sam. But as love blossoms, a darker truth emerges and Meg realises that Sam may not be the man she thought he was "--Publisher description
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