Where Hope Lives

by WendyRobertson (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $6.30

  Pit closures seem an almost daily occurrence in 1930s County Durham. In Brack's Hill where the pit provides the only employment, its closure is devastating. But there is hope, provided by the Settlement a charitable organisation, where one man's passion for painting matures into a real talent.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  1932. Gabriel Sargent is from a family of miners. Deprivation and poverty, to the point of starvation, are as well known to him as the workings of the local pit. And the suicide of his father and loss of his job look set to increase his suffering. The only glimmer of hope in his life is provided by an entirely unexpected source: the Priorton Settlement. At the Settlement, a German woman, Rosel Smidt, encourages Gabriel to paint. In Rosel and his art Gabriel finds the hope of a very different existence. He begins to fall in love with Rosel, but, with the approach of the Second World War, Rosel's nationality will surely drive them apart forever...