![]() She is naturally traumatized by his death. ![]() ![]() Amy knew baby Jamie and used to play “ This little piggy” with him. After interviewing various residents of the council estate Clare meets Amy, a young ragamuffin of a girl who is neglected by her single mother. But Clare thinks there is more to the story that that. Could this have been bitter retaliation for his father breaking the strike line? The baby’s grandmother thinks so. The baby who fell ( or was dropped) to his death was Jamie, the nine-month-old son of one of the ‘scab’ miners. But this time, following her reporters’ nose presents her with more difficulties that she could have ever dreamed of. When Clare learns of a baby’s death at the Sweetmeadows housing estate, she sees a headline story. Meanwhile she has to put up with the scorn of her superiors and the smarmy guy who got the job in her stead. The protagonist, Clare Jackson, is a journalist who has recently been passed over for promotion due to the fact that she did not show up for the interview. During the hot summer of 1984, the tensions of the strikers, the miner’s families and the police were made palpable. ![]() The action takes place in a small northern mining town during a miner’s strike. ![]() Although the Northern England of thirty years ago seems a lifetime and a world away, Bea Davenport transports the reader to the setting of “ This Little Piggy“ with a finesse which belies the fact that this is only her second crime novel. ![]()
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