Country Dance by Margiad Evans

Country Dance by Margiad Evans

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Summary

Country Dance is a story of passion, jealousy and revenge centred around a young woman torn between the opportunities and dangers of her life who grows up in an isolated rural community on the border between England and Wales. A classic love story where the rural way of life is no idyll, but a savage and exacting battle for survival.

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Country Dance by Margiad Evans

The fifth title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. A novel which sets a story of passion, murder and conflict played through the life of the young Ann Goodman, who is torn by 'the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood', Welsh and English. A classic love story develops in which the rural life is no idyll, but a savage and exacting battle for survival. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
`Written with terse incisive power.. the novels of Margiad Evans glow with a dark... passionate light..' Derek Savage
Artist and writer Margiad Evans was born in Uxbridge in 1909, but it was the border country between Wales and England along the Wye valley which became central to her consciousness and her writing. Her work includes The Wooden Doctor (1933); Turf or Stone (1934), and Creed (1936), as well as non-fiction, short stories, autobiography and two collections of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.
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ISBN 13 9781912681730
ISBN 10 1912681730
Title Country Dance
Author Margiad Evans
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Parthian Books
Year published 2019-11-30
Number of pages 200
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