To mark publication, Joan Hart will be interviewed on BBC TV Look North  next week about At the Coalface, her memoir…

…about growing up in Yorkshire and her life as a nurse down the coal mines at the time of the miners’ strike.

Joan wrote the book with Veronica Clark, whom she met at a writers’ group in a local hairdressers. The book is published by HarperCollins today.

Watch Joan and Veronica chatting about Joan’s coal mine dramas and the fun they had writing the book together on The Star and Doncaster Free Press online.

And read Veronica’s article from today’s The Yorkshire Times to find out more about the memoir.

Buy the book here