I utterly adored this book from the first page and read it straight through on Christmas evening. Told from the point of view of a 13 year-old girl, it's set in Wales in the late 1950s, and there are difficult people in it, with anger and mental illness. Yet I felt positive and captivated all the...
A charming novel from a promising author - definitely someone to look out for again. This was a lovely, gentle book (although the plot could be somewhat vague in parts) and yet packed full of all the dark secrets of village life, plus everyday family drama. A lot happens, almost without you reali...
Almost all the names in my Lion notebook have got a question mark next to them and my poster is falling apart. Mad Huw chased me from Tryfar Terrace because he thought I was showing everyone a picture of him, and I got a stitch in my side that has only just stopped hurting. But I think that befor...
It was only the desperation spilling from Angela – a softer, less high-handed Angela – that persuaded her. She had wanted to go to bed, to go to sleep, to forget about the whole day and wake in the morning just in time to catch the train home. The room into which Angela has brought her is dim and...