Notes

Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune, His childhood in the slums of Islington is brought to an end after a tragedy that sends him north to Scarsdale, a hard-living coal mining town where his father finds work as a union organizer, but escalating tensions between the miners and employer explode with terrible consequences.
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world.