by Lloyd Jones (Translator), Angharad Price (Author), Lloyd Jones (Translator), Angharad Price (Author), Lloyd Jones (Translator)
In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life.
Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation of the changing seasons and a life that is so in tune with its surroundings is rich and poignant. The Life of Rebecca Jones has all the makings of a classic, fixing on a vanishing period of rural history, and the novel's final, unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 06 Mar 2014
ISBN 10: 085738712X
ISBN 13: 9780857387127
Angharad Price was born near Caernarfon. A novelist, critic and translator, she has taught at Swansea Univeristy and at Cardiff University, and is now lecturer in Welsh at Bangor University. The Life of Rebecca Jones is her second novel.
Lloyd Jones' novel Mr Cassini was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.