How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)

from Lesliejaneite

A few times in my reading life I have been so been so touched by a book that when it is over I feel a great loss and literally clasp the book to my chest like a loved-one just departed. Some one on...

from Carol420

This melancholic elegy for departed loved ones and the vanished way of life of a Welsh coal mining town is one of the most beautiful books ever written. The narrator, Huw Morgan, tells the story of...

from bookwoman247

This is the story of a Welsh coal-mining family at about the turn of the Twentieth Century as narrated by the youngest son, Huw Morgan. I felt a great sympathy for Huw and his entire family, in spi...

from countrylife

Ah, my little one, such a good book it is. If a sense of place is uppermost in your reading needs, this book delivers. The valleys of Wales come alive through this story of a family who make their ...

from eglinton

There is lovely to read. Richard Llewellyn crafts a lyrical, yearning memoir (one assumes it must be rooted in his experience) of growing up in the Welsh mining valleys around the end of the19th ce...