Hardcastle

"The title...[does] not prepare the reader for the gentleness and the generosity that illuminate this story of such a town and time. The central characters are two men and two women: a starving and penniless traveller; the mother and son who take him in, feed him up, and get him well-paying work, in partnership with the son, as a mine guard; and a young widow whose husband was shot down by a mine guard after he tried to steal a kerchief for her from the commissary..."Yount, John is the author of 'Hardcastle' with ISBN 9780870743412 and ISBN 0870743414.