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Title: Mighty Like a Rose

Subtitle: The Thornethorpe Saga, Volume 1

Author: Kitty Campanile

Narrator: Mil Nicholson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: Kitty Campanile

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Romance, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Mary Ryder is a housewife, her once fiery nature ground down by a life of cleaning and cooking for her drunken husband, Nigel. A chance meeting with idealistic mineworker Lewis Evans makes her realize what love can be.

Mary made a commitment to Nigel: for better, for worse. When the National Union of Mineworkers calls a strike, Mary doesn't realize it will change her and the town forever.

A tale of love, friendship, and solidarity set against the backdrop of the 1984-85 miners' strike, Mighty Like a Rose follows Mary on her journey from neat detached house to the front line of the UK's longest-running industrial dispute.

Members Reviews:

Recommended read.

Having been born in the mid 90s, Iâm taken aback that our leading lady, Mary, of this book mighty like a rose is relying on her husband, Nigel, for housekeeping money.

I like how I am drawn straight into feeling a part of this. I feel empathy for Mary and that, by the way that author, Kitty Campanile, writes this character, she is a very attractive young lady. The small comedic touches are good and I like how immediately I can tell the era this book is set in and how the author has entwined details of this era into Maryâs life.

The pace to this book is slow and the story is told in the first five or six chapters, leaving the rest of the book to be a slow burning chronicle of the miners strike, which in places left me feeling quite emotional. I do think Mary came across as pathetic in parts of this. I know this is a novel about her life but it felt like a pity party on occasion and with this book telling the stories of other characters, some outweighed each other with their significance in the narrative. I also am not sure about the she leaves one man, who is effectively a douchebag, and takes up with another man, who is effectively a kind, generous and sweet angel. Itâs a fairy-tale. Couldnât the angel have had at least one flaw?

This is an excellent novel, of historical importance, about the unity and spirit of a community. If there is a second book to mighty like a rose Iâm not complaining.

A touching love story set against a gritty background

This is a love story set in Northern England against the backdrop of the 1984-1985 coalminers' strike. The author is at her best when she describes the effects of the food and clothing shortages on a small Yorkshire town and how the women of the community come together to help their men and each other through deprivations they face. I would have liked to hear more about the motivation behind the action of the heroine's abusive husband. However, the care she has for her mineworker lover and his family is touchingly portrayed. The story is easy to read and I can recommend it to anyone likes well written romantic stories set against a gritty background.