The Valley with Richard Benson
Best-selling author Richard Benson, talks about his acclaimed new book, The Valley, the story of four generations of his mother’s family in a Dearne Valley mining community. Set 30 years on from the Miners’ Strike of 1984, The Valley is a fascinating and epic history of the mining community, combing portrayals of social injustice with a true life family saga. Spanning 92 years and drawing on years of historical research and interviews, The Valley brilliant captures a South Yorkshire community.
Richard Benson is the author of the number one bestseller, The Farm, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and was a Richard and Judy book club choice. He is also a contributing editor at Esquire magazine.
“Wonderful … Remarkable … The writing is an extraordinary mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog, and quite original, and the language of rural Yorkshire is captured with an authenticity which shakes the reader” Ronald Blythe
“Benson writes crisp, witty and enjoyable prose, filling his pages with character sketches and dialogue, brilliantly capturing the terse wit of grumpy Yorkshire” Guardian
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