Publisher's Synopsis
"A scaldingly accurate vision...with equal measures of comedy, sorrow and anger." MAIL ON SUNDAY It is 1912 and Bessie Bawtry is a small child living in Breaseborough, a South Yorkshire mining town. Unusually gifted, she studies hard, waiting for the day when she can sit the Cambridge entrance exam and escape the kind of life her ancestors have never even thought to question...Nearly a century later, Bessie's granddaughter, Faro Gaulden, is listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. She has returned to the depressed little town where Bessie grew up and all around her she sees the families who have stayed there for longer than anyone can remember. But has Faro really travelled any further than her Breaseborough kin?
