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Mercia's Take

Mercia's Take

Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023

by Daniel Wiles
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/03/2022

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Mercia's Take summons an England in the heat of the industrial revolution, and the lives it took to make it. Gripping, powerful and intense, it is the debut of an astonishing new talent.

1870s, the Black Country.

Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man.

Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won't have to be a miner too.

Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and Luke's. But his workmate has other ideas...

ISBN:
9781800750692
9781800750692
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-03-2022
Publisher:
Swift Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm

'Read this novel and marvel at its language, dark and gleaming as obsidian...A striking debut'
- Paul Lynch

'Energy and passion fuels this harsh and beautiful first novel; Daniel Wiles connects us viscerally to the past we have buried, the history we choose to ignore'
- Hilary Mantel

Daniel Wiles

Daniel Wiles is from Walsall in the West Midlands.

He recently completed the Prose MA at UEA, where he was the recipient of the Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. Mercia's Take is his first novel.

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