Reaching across time, this book follows the lives of two women, their families, and their generations that followed. People from entirely different walks of life, their lives are inexorably joined together by love, hate and the hand of fate. Beginning in the late 1800's, the northern England town of Wigan, due to its industries of cotton mills and coal mines, was permanently shrouded in a cloud of poisonous black smog, her rivers running with the ooze of industry. The county of Yorkshire was jus