It's 1906 and Jack Walker is content. He is happily married and his wife is about to give birth to their first child. But then tragedy strikes and Jack loses everything. He has one chance. The pit manager gives him a letter of introduction at another coalmine. It is for a job that no-one wants. Jack doesn't have a choice and sets off on foot carrying everything he owns on his back. But he is also carrying another burden. A terrible secret that he has never come to terms with. So begins the long road to recovery for Jack Walker in this new historical novel, based in the North of England coalfields, at the beginning of the 20th century. For more information visit the author's website at www.mikebowden.co.uk