The Crossing bridges the past and the present and
connects Wales with America, as it tells of coal owners
and coal workers in the age of great transatlantic liners
and fortunes to be made.
At its heart is a father’s search for his daughter in
Welsh valleys no longer proud, where creaming off
regeneration grants has replaced coal mining as a
way of life and development parks now stand where
once did pit head wheels. It follows a lifetime’s search
for lost love, the sinking of a great ship in a great war,
misplaced family and forlorn hopes where individual
lives are shaped and fated in the shadow of modernity
and the cold hand of progress.
This brave, bold and challenging work conjures a vivid
cast of characters into being and offering – with ready
vim and ample vigour – their compelling, complex and
ultimately telling story.