A Scab Is No Son of Mine

A book based on the life of Stephen Whyles, who crossed an angry picket line of over 800 miners at Whitwell Colliery in Derbyshire. His Father was a member of the Marxist movement and worked at the same colliery, His Father disowned him and cast him out of the family home when Stephen said he was going back to work. The book tells of Stephen's early life and up to starting work at the colliery, it portrays how that fateful decision to cross a picket line has followed him throughout his working life, the book ends at the thirtieth anniversary of the miners strike. A very riveting read.