Barry Hines' penultimate novel 'The Heart of It' was published in 1994 by Michael Joseph. The novel tells the story of a Hollywood screenwriter returning home to visit his father, a communist former miner and veteran of the 1984-85 miner's strike. Contains typed and handwritten proofs of the novel, and material relating to an unfinished screenplay, provisionally titled either 'The Heart of It' or 'Follow the Sun'.