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The story focuses on the lives of two main families living in the industrial town of Corby, Northampton and the ubiquitous presence of the town‘s steelworks provides a fiery core around which histories and imagery revolve. The Works drew disparate families to the place which most of them hate, dims the night sky and coats everything in a grime from which they are all trying to escape.

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