315 pages, browned, Mechanics' Institute inkstamps to some pages, endpapers with bookplate of the Swindon GWR Mechanics' Institute and date-stamp label, etc., hardback, library cloth, minor wear to extremities, whole book leans (when laid on table, front cover is further to the right than the back).

The story is set mainly in a fictional pit village in South Wales after the General Strike of 1926 and recounts the desperate conditions of the miners after the strike.