The Coal Miner's Daughter

A wealthy landlord’ s son, and a coal miner’ s daughter… Growing up in poverty, one of six siblings, Hannah Armstrong never thought she’ d know anything other than her little mining town. But then she falls for Timothy Durkin, a wealthy Oxford student… Following her heart, Hannah sacrifices everything she holds dear and follows her new husband to Oxford. But will her new life of luxury be everything she expected - or will she find that once a coal miner's daughter, always a coal miner's daughter...?

Maggie Hope was born in County Durham, during the Depression of the 1930s. She is the daughter of a coal miner and knows first-hand the hardships suffered by miners and their families during that time. Along with her three sisters, she was raised in a ‘ two-up-two-down’ miner’ s cottage with no inside toilet. Growing up, Maggie never dreamed she could earn a living from her writing. Instead she left school at sixteen and became a nurse, collecting stories from colleagues who had served during the war. Maggie gave up nursing when she married her husband and started a family. It wasn’ t until she was in her 50s though that she finally began her writing career. She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of fifteen novels.