Cool Water

Cool Water Jack Gale A novel based on real places real people and real life events set in two parts. (Jack 1: Jack 2) Synopsis Jack 1. Describes the lifestyle of four Yorkshire teenage miners in the mid1950s; of their sexual frustrations struggles and successes as they grow into maturity. How the mother of one of them has a very serious problem and the fours reaction to it culminating in a murder. A mining disaster entombs the main character Jack. He is rescued but vows never to go down a coal mine again. Jack 2. After Jack's long absence in the Army a reunion now finds the four of them in middle age. One has a teenage daughter who dies in a very mysterious circumstance. The four friends set about righting a terrible wrong.