A Small Country is the story of the Evans family, farmers in Carmarthenshire. In the summer of 1914 son Tom returns from Oxford to find the family falling apart. His handsome father has gone to live with schoolmistress Miriam Lewis, who is to have his child. His mother, broken-hearted, lies ill i...
In the old press in Miss Rees’ bedroom, under a pile of linen, was a brown canvas bag containing a great weight of gold sovereigns.‘Great Heavens,’ Tom said when she took them to him. ‘However did she manage to save this much money? Her wages were ridiculously small for all the work she did here....