About the Author

Ellen Wilkinson, the first woman Labour MP, is best remembered for leading a march of unemployed from her Jarrow constituency to London in 1936. Her first novel Clash is set a decade earlier, during the General Strike and Miners' Lock-Out of 1926. Wilkinson was sent by the TUC to tour the country in support of the strikers, and the book bears all the marks of her first-hand experience.