HATTERSLEY, ROY - In That Quiet Earth

London England, Macmilan, 1991. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0333470338 Harback The politician and author's second volume of a major historical trilogy, set in rural Lincolnshire and Nottingham between 1870 and 1930, and chronicles the lives of three generations - William Skinner and his blind wife, their three frustrated children and their clever, beautiful headstrong granddaughter. William, master of Wisbech Workhouse, is dismissed when a young pauper claims he is the father of her child, and he slides from.. (Historical Fiction, Lincolnshire, Nottingham).