North and South
Raphael Samuel, 22 June 1995
Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village
by Mark Hudson.
Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, October 1994,0 224 04170 3 Show More
by Mark Hudson.
Cape, 320 pp., £16.99, October 1994,
“... and felt herself ‘completely at home’ with them. In the person of the ‘gentle and amiable John Aked’ she entered, too, into the first of her intense relationships with working men. The journey to Bacup, though she calls it ‘sentimental’, was also, by her own account, the launching-pad for her lifelong work as a social investigator; as her diary ... ”