Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother
visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales.
Here, her father heard a voice - which he knew to be God -
directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was
born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up
his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move
to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler
a predominantly Welsh-speaking parish in the Teifi valley, then
back to Aberaeron where Bell's father became vicar, and then to a
larger and more Evangelical church in Aberystwyth. This unique
memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and
sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapshots in
words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life.
Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time which tells us
about how Bell got here. Not the whole story, but her story. Of an
English family on a mission from God, of signs and wonders in the
Welsh countryside, of difference, and of faith and its loss.
General
Imprint: |
Parthian Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Julia Bell
|
Dimensions: |
210 x 148 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
112 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-914595-11-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-914595-11-4 |
Barcode: |
9781914595110 |
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