<p>'A brilliant debut' Guardian<br>1870s, the Black Country.<br>Michael is a miner. But it's no life for a man.<br>Michael exhausts himself working two jobs, to send his son Luke to school, so he won't have to be a miner too.<br>Down the pit one day, he finds a seam of gold. If he gets it out, he can save his own life, and Luke's.<br>But his workmate has other ideas?<br>Mercia's Take summons an England in the heat of the industrial revolution, an...