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The Hiring Fair Book

In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies law, determined never to return to the grinding poverty of his childhood. Mirrin, the most restless and vital of them all, takes to the road and begins her journey, from tinker's camp to hiring fair, to a glittering future on the music-hall stage. And the Stalkers who remain in Blacklaw join a violent and bloody riot when the mine-owner Houston Lamont pushes them, at last, too far.The Stalker Trilogy:'Family ties, family strengths and weaknesses, ambition, greed loyalty and love . . . the story is compelling.' Daily Telegraph'I would strongly recommend it to anyone with a taste for family sagas.' ScotsmanRead More

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    Set in the Scotland of the bleak 1870s this is the second novel in the Stalker Trilogy. With her father and two brothers dead in the Blacklaw mine disaster Mirrin Stalker takes to the road with a group of travelling tinkers finally to emerge on the stage of the music-hall in its heyday.

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    Once as much a part of the Lanarkshire village of Blacklaw as the rich coal seam of its colliery, the Stalkers now dream of a better future. In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies law, determined never to return to the grinding poverty of his childhood. Mirrin, the most restless and vital of them all, takes to the road and begins her journey, from tinker's camp to hiring fair, to a glittering future on the music-hall stage. And the Stalkers who remain in Blacklaw join a violent and bloody riot when the mine-owner Houston Lamont pushes them, at last, too far.

  • 0340707445
  • 9780340707449
  • Jessica Stirling
  • 5 February 1998
  • Coronet
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 426
  • New Ed
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