Pain and Perseverance

This is a story of love between a father and son and the sons search to find a woman with whom he can fall in love. It begins in 1933 and portrays the life of Tom the son of warring parents in a Durham mining community from just before he is four when memories linger hazily through schooling RAF university and work to middle age where memories stay vividly. Two constants run through the narrative: the sons determination to be a vet and the fathers constant support and encouragement. The daily grind of pit work and rows with his religious wife lead Toms father to heavy bouts of drinking but his parents remain united in one aim: their son must never endure the hardship of working down the pit.