The Poison Glen

Reaching across time, this book follows the lives of two women, their families, and their generations that followed. Mary Ann Oxley was born into poverty in the town of Wigan, England, which was permanently shrouded in a poisonous black smog, her rivers running with the ooze of industry. The booming Industrial Revolution brought wealth to some but only misery and abject poverty to others. Eliza Jane Skelton was born in the county of Yorkshire to a privileged family where the countryside was lush and green, with rolling ridges of woods dipping down to broad valleys. She was sheltered from the harsh realities of life and took for granted her place in society. This would leave her with little to combat the hardships that would come from the tragic results of wrong decisions. This story will take the reader to England, through the dreadful working conditions of child labor in the late eighteen hundreds, and on to the harsh realities of War. You will travel across India, into darkest Africa, and to the prisoner of war camps of Nazi Germany, and eventually find yourself on the shores of the United States of America
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Reaching across time, this book follows the lives of two women, their families, and their generations that followed. People from entirely different walks of life, their lives are inexorably joined together by love, hate and the hand of fate. Beginning in the late 1800’s, the northern England town of Wigan, due to its industries of cotton mills and coal mines, was permanently shrouded in a cloud of poisonous black smog, her rivers running with the ooze of industry. The county of Yorkshire was just sixty miles west of Wigan, but it might have been a world away. Here the countryside was lush and green, with rolling ridges of woods dipping down to broad valleys, where farms nestled in rich fields. Even though there were coal mines in the county of Yorkshire, they had not yet scarred the landscape or polluted the sky with their great clouds of