"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?"
The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside.
Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals.
"You'd better love me."
Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy.
She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist.
"I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go."
Rattle is determined to have Jonathan.
But he's already married.
To a vengeful ghost.
"I love you to death."
Über den Autor Susan Price
Susan Price is a critically acclaimed writer of fiction for children and young adults. She has written more than 60 books, from picture books to crossover novels. Her book The Ghost Drum won the Carnegie medal in 1987, and The Sterkarm Handshake won the Guardian prize in 1997. Susan was born, and still lives, in the Black Country.