Richard Benson
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The close-knit villages of the Dearne Valley were home to four generations of the Hollingworth family. Spanning Richard Bensons great-grandmother Winnies ninety-two years in the valley, and drawing on years of historical research, interviews and anecdotes, The Valley lets us into generations of carousing and banter as the familys attempts to build a better and fairer world for themselves meet sometimes with triumph, sometimes...