Hearts Of Gold - Softcover

Bethan Powell, a recently qualified nurse, is the main breadwinner for her colliery family. Living in the Depression-ridden Welsh valleys, her life is a continual struggle to make ends meet. Then one day, working at the hospital, she meets Andrew John, an affluent young doctor from a different world. Andrew has a car and a flat, and introduces Bethan to a different style of life away from the poverty and hardship she is used to. But their love is a subject of much gossip, and they will have to overcome family prejudice and social barriers before they can find true happiness.

Living in the Graig, in the shadow of the workhouse during the Depression, Bethan Powell has never mixed with those who live in the big houses on Pontypridd Common until one day, at the hospital where she is a trainee midwife, she meets Andrew John, a young doctor raised on London ways. Their love will have to overcome formidable prejudice, but slowly passion triumphs. Until a sinister discovery forces Bethan to choose between the pull of her heart and a deeper sense of duty to her family and home...