Never Look Back: He left Swaledale lead for Durham coal to find loss and love on the Coalfields

By Val Vayro

This book is the second in the Hutchinson Trilogy, this time following the life of another John Hutchinson, grandson of the first. With a life beginning in the worst of circumstances, he has to take every chance he can to survive. Life in the mid Nineteenth Century is not easy for anyone in the lower working classes. Mortality is high. The working man is very lucky to see fifty years. Poverty, dirt and disease are an accepted way of life. Responsibility is forced on him now there are others who depend on him. He has his share of tragedy and has to deal with the consequences. Taking a chance, he moves his family from remote Swaledale when cheaper imported lead makes the lead mining industry fall on its heels. What does he have to lose? Making that journey on foot, not knowing what to expect, or how he will cope with the change of occupation, makes him determined to succeed. His family depends on him. He wants more than the life he has. But he also has a life full of love. A life where he takes full advantage of all that comes his way, both to improve his own circumstances, and to make the lives of those he loves all the better for it. There's tragedy, tears and death in these pages. But there's also an abundance of love, passion and purpose, with an ample sprinkling of what holds families together, both then and now. This is the story of a man who pulls himself up by his boot straps. And he does it all by himself. The story of a good man.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1073669963
• ISBN13: 9781073669967
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"