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Voices of the Children
George Ewart Evans
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Description for Voices of the Children
Paperback. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, this book recreates a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
The old valleys have got something flying about in them beside the coal dust...Voices of the Children is a delicate and heartfelt story of the golden, ephemeral, uncertain world of childhood. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, George Ewart Evans has recreated a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood. The hills were freedom, and the valley was the shop, milking the cow, errands, difficult customers, and, last of all, the new baby. ... Read more
The old valleys have got something flying about in them beside the coal dust...Voices of the Children is a delicate and heartfelt story of the golden, ephemeral, uncertain world of childhood. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, George Ewart Evans has recreated a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood. The hills were freedom, and the valley was the shop, milking the cow, errands, difficult customers, and, last of all, the new baby. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Library of Wales
Condition
New
Weight
189g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781905762514
SKU
V9781905762514
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-20
About George Ewart Evans
George Ewart Evans was born in 1909, in the mining village of Abercynon. He was one of a family of eleven children whose parents ran a grocer's shop: the setting of his semi-autobiographical novel Voices of the Children(1947). After education at Mountain Ash County School and University College Cardiff, where he read classics and trained as a ... Read more
Reviews for Voices of the Children
'I hope you like it. Me, I loved it' - Gwyn Jones.