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The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the setting
for this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the
beautiful and wilful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by two
men: Llew, her aggressive, red-haired cousin, and Evan, the dreamy
miller and would-be poet. She has to make a choice but it's not her
future alone that depends on her decision. She and Tanygraig are
positioned precariously on borders of class, nation, language, and
changing times. In this enduring novel by Geraint Goodwin, first
published in 1936, Wales is associated with tradition and
stability, England connotes modernity and movement. Beti is
conscious of living at a temporal border: "The old way of things
was ending; she had come at the end of one age and the beginning of
another. Wales would be the last to go - but it was going..."
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