5/10/2023 0 Comments Llewellyn how green was my valley![]() ![]() The family does well enough, with earnings used carefully, and difficult periods when there is conflict with mine owners or strike are tided over, help even extended to others in need in the village. Our narrator is Huw Morgan, a child of six and youngest of the Morgan family when the book opens (a younger sister is born later), with father Gwilym and five older brothers working in the mines. This was my second read for #Dewithon23 and a buddy read with Liz from Adventures in Reading, Running and Working from Home (incidentally, our other read for Dewithon, Sugar and Slate turned out to be common too). ![]() Richard Llewellyn’s classic, How Green Was My Valley (1939) is a multi- layered book-a coming of age tale, a story of family and relationships, of life in a small mining town in Southern Wales, of simpler times gone by, of the unions, the conditions in which miners lived and worked, of tensions between the Welsh and English, of language politics, and much more. ![]()
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