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.