Legend Pr Ltd In The Shadow Of The Wheel

Pulled from the worn out prolapsed womb of her mother in the year 1912, Mercia Emma Harrison was the last child of twelve to be born to her mother Emma and father Frank Harrison, the underground manager of a Midlands colliery. Told by Mercia, this true story spanning three generations of her family is riddled with both drama and misery. Telling as it unfolds of the constant struggle for survival against all the odds, her coalmining family had had to endure over the years. Tragedy dogged Mercia's birth family too; leaving no one unscathed. But she also tells of the happier times too, while living out her childhood years in a small mining community village, full of poor, mischievous, but amusingly colourful characters that so enriched her life. This endearing, sometimes very sad often very funny story, will have its readers crying one minute, laughing the next.