THE HAPPY LANDEric KnightHarper ($2.50).
Three years ago Yorkshire-born Eric Knight won a critical success with Song on Your Bugles, a first novel vividly evoking Yorkshire textile workers of 25 years ago. (Author Knight, ex-reporter and Hollywood writer, emigrated to the U. S. as adolescent.) Deft but less vivid, The Happy Land tells the story of a coal-mining Yorkshire village on the dole. In particular it is the story of the motherless Clough family, the spunky fight of eldest daughter Thora against depression odds which send one brother to prison, frustrate the talents of another, turn her father into a fiercely...
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