Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood this slim but devastating novel captures an entire village, an entire world, and the many ways in which a woman can be trapped. A real gem. RUTH GILLIGAN, author of The ButchersA wonderful novella, full of atmosphere and feeling SARA BAUME, author of A LINE MADE BY WALKINGBeautiful, incredibly painterly and full of breathtaking details. A devastating portrait of a particular place, which draws you in with its brutality and beauty CARYL LEWIS, author of DRIFTIncredibly assured, carefully observed, full of heart. A quietly devastating read which lingers long after the final page JAN CARSON, author of THE RAPTURESTucked into the Welsh valleys and encircled by silver birch and pine, the village of Cwmcysgod may appear a quiet, sleepy sort of place. But beneath the surface, tensions simmer, hearts ache, and painful truths threaten to emerge.Sixteenyearold Catrin Bone knows only what she has been told. Now, she is beginning to question her small world, and a version of the past that seems to entrap and embitter her reclusive mother, Mary.Mary had a sister once, a girl of unparalleled beauty. Why did she disappear from the village in a shroud of shame all those years ago and where is she now?Meanwhile the Clements brothers, skint and all out of hope, run rampant across the hills and lanes. And old Dai Bevel, whose frailty masks a dark history, dreams of a girl he used to know...The sins of the past are approaching, for it takes a...

Binding: Hardback;176 pages; Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 370 g; Dimensions: 135 x 207 x 23

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