Touchpaper and Kindling SIAN SHIPLEY

Description

Everybody in the valley knows Dyfi Jones. Volatile, irreverent and infamously expelled from school under appalling circumstances, she’s a familiar sight in the coal-mining town of Twlldu, delivering bread and linen through the streets on horseback.

Weighed down by tragedy, Dyfi’s grief and anger threaten to consume her on a daily basis, but when she hears of a ploy by the mine-owner and his trustees to withhold a substantial pension and death in service payment from a grieving widow and her family, Dyfi cannot allow herself to stand by and watch it happen… especially since she considers Charles Bowden, businessman, owner, and proprietor of the Canol-Y-Byd mine to be responsible for the agonising death of her brother just over a year before.

Touchpaper and Kindling is the first book in the Tales From Dragontown series, set in Wales at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Due to its descriptions of death, injury and bodily harm, Touchpaper and Kindling is suitable for readers aged 14+