Currently being made into a tv film for Boom Pictures. Carys Evans is 17 years old, ambitious, clever and feisty. But she is also the daughter of a mining family in South Wales, about to enter the most violent industrial dispute of modern times. Her mother starts a soup kitchen, her father becomes a strike leader and her village, Aberelli, gets invaded by journalists, police officers and strike provocateurs. Violence, intimidation and depravity prevail. Carys's world gets changed in ways she would never have imagined. Taking us from 1984 to 2009, this is a story of survival, sex, aspiration and a fight to save community. Marrying the personal and political, it is funny, sad and shocking - and resonates with the bigger story of industrial decline in the final decades of the twentieth century. Product details