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A searing and powerful novel from one of Wales's best - selling authors. ...It was daylight before the cage wheel began to turn and the first of the casualties was brought up. It finished only when there were nine bodies laid out on stretchers. Despite a comfortable living, surrounded by lush farmlands, Jennie's life under the critical eye o... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Blaenavon and Abergavenny surge to life in this vibrant, haunting, joyful masterpiece, a celebration of the Welsh people in the 1920s to '40s. "The Mountains Between" is a saga of two families and their communities - farmers and miners, villagers and warriors, singers and mourners, noble and ignoble, cowardly and brave, in a smorgasbord that keeps the pages in perpetual motion.
Little Jennie grows up in the 1920's and 30's on a valley farm near Abergavenny: a childhood dominated by the love of father and siblings, and the hatred of an obsessive mother - fighting to keep her balance in the face of an unbalanced parent and the deepest heart-blows a child can bear. Her life is completely different from that of young Harry Jenkins, born into a Blaenavon mining community repeatedly struck by disaster. Through tragic marriages to other people, into World War Two and beyond, both must overcome their personal devastations before they are ready to love again. ( )