The Pit Girl's Courage

By: Nell Harte

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Publisher's summary

In the dust of the coal mines, Cassie never imagined her heart could lead her to the brink of ruin.

Cassie’s days are spent in the perilous Northumberland coal mines toiling alongside her family. Each day is a struggle against the suffocating dust and despair and toxic gas, yet amidst the bleakness, a tender friendship grows between Cassie and Oliver, the overseer’s son, but as their clandestine love blossoms, their world around them soon crumbles.

When mother flees the family home Cassie’s her life is upturned once and Cassie and brother Junior are left to deal with their selfish and violent father who in a drunken stupor causes a deadly explosion in the mine.

Now outcast from their friends and neighbours and turned out from their cottage Cassie and Junior seek refuge with their mother only to discover that she has taken up with ‘Frank’ and Junior is unwelcome.

Turning to Oliver for support she is devastated when he is sent away to make a new life. Promising to write, Cassie holds on to hope, but when she is warned to stay away from Oliver on threat of death, Cassie’s hope is lost.

Now years later in the depths of Newcastle with Oliver lost to her, and Junior at sea, Cassie must face a
new life alone. By day she sells molluscs to the passing crowd; by night, she serves drinks in an unsavoury tavern.

But when an unwelcome suitor threatens her life an unexpected ally appears, hinting at a past long believed lost. Can this ghost from her old life be the key to Cassie’s new beginning, or is it just another shadow in the darkness? Find out in this wonderful Historical Victorian Romance from Nell Harte.