Fiction - 4.5 stars - A melancholy memoir about a young man growing up in a mining family in Wales and the impact of mine closures on the families of the time, this 1939 book was made into an Academy Award-winning movie starring Maureen O'Hara and Roddy McDowell. The description of the Welsh childhood and the struggles that families went through at the time are vivid and timeless.
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