The Legacy - Audio Cassette - Unabridged Author:Lynda La Plante A novel concerned with human greed, lust and ambition, which tells of a Welsh miner's daughter who marries a Romany gypsy boxer contending for the World Heavyweight Championship and of how a legacy left to her affects her family. — Hugh is a hard-drinking lion of the Welsh Valleys. His daughter, Evelyn lost her heart to a travelli... more »ng gypsy. And handsome prizefighter Freedom was saved from the gallows to do battle for the heavy weight championship of the world.
From the poverty of the Welsh pit valleys to the glories of the prize ring, from the dangers of prohibition America to the terrors of Britain at war, Lynda La Plante delves into the lives of a remarkable family and its fortunes, and the curse that forged their names.