The well and the mine
Subtitle: a novel
By: Gin Phillips
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781844086535
Subjects: Cities and towns; Fiction; Coal mines and mining; Depressions; Domestic fiction; Social conditions
Description: In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community.