How Green Was My Valley

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 once said, after seeing the beauty of Alaska, that he wished he had seen it as an old man, for it's ma...

from kslade

I really enjoyed this one about a boy growing up in the Welsh coal fields. Good observations on life, death, sex (in a good way), etc.

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 century. The telling can be nostalgic but always seem authentic: the characters in his large family; t...

from K3ndra28

Around the World in Books Challenge: WalesI will be visiting Wales in a few weeks so this book was high on my list to finish before my trip (I actually had to make a point of cutting myself off from borrowing books from the library to make sure I finished them all by the time I leave).I adored th...

from Juva

A coming of age story set in Welsh coal-mining country during the 1930s. Huw is a young man growing up in a family of coal miners. His childhood is idyllic in many ways, but as he grows up, he notices the encroaching slag and the constant strikes. His world is full of violence and lingering dread...