Winners and Losers

About this book

Megan Williams is eighteen and in love with the boy next door, Victor Evans. At thirteen she had been sent from her family's farm to keep house for her widower uncle and his five children. But when her uncle can no longer pay her wages, she is forced to seek work elsewhere. It is 1910 and Tonypandy is a town of poverty, strife and soup kitchens garrisoned by troops brought in to control the striking miners, whose anger all too frequently erupts into bouts of violence. The only people who are hiring are the houses where the soldiers lodge. Megan has no choice but to accept work at one of them. She finds herself shunned by friends and former neighbours, an ostracism from which not even Victor and his family can protect her.