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Review of Black River by Louise Walsh By Scott Jones Aberfan, Hillsborough, Grenfell. Names synonymous with warnings ignored, corners cut and the disregard capitalism has for working class lives. There are parallels, too, between these disasters in how the media portrays victims and survivors. ‘Black River’, a novel by Louise Walsh, is about events after the Aberfan disaster. 116 people, ...

By Sasha O’Neil Aberfan – it’s a name as resonant with tragedy for working class people in South Wales as Hillsborough is for Liverpool. For many the horror is all the greater because 116 of the 144 who died were young children. Like Hillsborough, Aberfan was a disaster that need never have happened. The coal waste tips that towered above ...