Flesh and Blood

Land of the Living 1

Author(s) Emyr Humphreys

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

Series: Land of the Living

  • April 1999 · 380 pages ·198x123mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708315125

This story of a child named Amy Parry follows her on a journey to maturity, when she will savour to the full the subtle flavours and rich textures of a way of life that has now all but vanished from the Principality of Wales.

'Richly endowed with character, this is the first in a sequence of novels...offering a long sequence of enjoyment for the future.' Philippa Toomey, The Times

Author(s): Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys is one of Wales's foremost novelists and author of 21 novels, including a past winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and works that are now set texts at A-Level. He is the author of volumes of poetry, short stories, cultural criticism and has also written a selected history of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition.

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