This book follows the lives of 2 families over 5 generations, centred in and around Bradford and starts in 1843. It is fascinating reading about the conditions of those times, how hard life was and how much the wool industry affected people, with a huge divide between those who owned the mills and the workers.  A great deal of history has been incorporated into the book, and the very fact that it is a story makes more of an impression than just reading a history book. I loved reading about local places like Saltaire and Shipley Glen, as they are on the doorstep and I've been to them.   As with all families, some offspring leave their home town and start lives elsewhere. There is huge diversity where some of them end up and what they do for a living.

Marion Payne