# Salt of the Earth

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- Book: [Salt of the Earth](https://www.bookquiver.com/sally-spencer/salt-of-the-earth) ([Salt of the Earth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sally-spencer/salt-of-the-earth.md))
- Authors: [Sally Spencer](https://www.bookquiver.com/sally-spencer)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0912-660-7
- Published: 2012-07-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The first novel in the wonderful East End saga from the author of UP OUR STREET Becky Taylor is born the last of seven children into a poor working class family during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution. Her mother is exhausted by poverty and child-bearing; her father has given the best years of his life to Worrells salt works as a miner. But in spite of the hardships, Becky grows up in a family full of warmth, loyalty and determination. Spanning twenty, this is at once a family saga and a story of the indomitable working class spirit; it is also the story of a beautiful women who is determined to rise about her origins and lead a better life. Her challenge is to achieve her dreams without losing the friends and family to whom she owes everything.