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'I warn you, and it is a solemn warning. Leave me, and you - and who ever you run to - will suffer. I have a husband's rights under God's law: and those whom God has joined together let no man break asunder. ' It is 1905 and in Pontypridd and the Rhondda, coal is king and the families who sank the first collieries are rich. Though no one is wealthier than Harry Watkin Jones. At 20, his daughter Sali is about to marry businessman Mansel in Pontypridd's wedding of the year. But tragedy follows tragedy, and four short and traumatic years later, Sali becomes a penniless outcast fleeing from a violent husband and struggling to support herself and her son in a world very different to the one she once knew. When she becomes housekeeper to a family of colliers, Sali finds herself denying her roots, her class and sacrificing her son's future to be with the people she has come to love.

'I warn you, and it is a solemn warning. Leave me, and you - and who ever you run to - will suffer. I have a husband's rights under God's law: and those whom God has joined together let no man break asunder. ' It is 1905 and in Pontypridd and the Rhondda, coal is king and the families who sank the first collieries are rich. Though no one is wealthier than Harry Watkin Jones. At 20, his daughter Sali is about to marry businessman Mansel in Pontypridd's wedding of the year. But tragedy follows tragedy, and four short and...  Read More