The Well and the Mine

This novel was written by Gin Philipps.

Alabama, 1931. In a little coal mining town, families struggle not to starve. Tess, a young girl, once daydreams, sitting on the porch at dawn. Suddenly she sees a woman throwing a baby into the family well. At first, no one wants to believe Tess's story, till the baby's body is discovered. Tess and her elder sister Virgie will then try to find out who was the woman who killed her baby. But things are not always so simple in those Depression-era days. Through the words of each member of the family, Leta, the hard-working mum, Albert, the father and coal mining employee, Virgie and Tess, their daughters, and little Jack, the youngest of the family, we have here an accurate insight of what was life in working classes during the 1930s.