Donovan, Rita.

Dark Jewels / Rita Donovan - Canada : Ragweed Press, c1990 - 224 pages ; 23 cm.

Set during the Cape Breton coal miners' strike of 1925, "Dark Jewels is the story of the MacFarlands, a family that has suffered losses in the First World War, and whose buried secrets surface amid the immigrant tensions, anti-strike oppression and poverty of their community. The characters endure; a few attain grace.

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CANADIAN FICTION

FIC .D66 1990