Angharad Price - The Life of Rebecca Jones

Our first talk this year is on Monday 19 January at 7pm, when Angharad Price is talking about her novel The Life of Rebecca Jones, based on the life of her great aunt and her family who have farmed the land in the Maesglasau valley in Wales for a thousand years:

Price's book achieves a rare feat indeed. A lovingly crafted account of Welsh-speaking rural life on the brink of dissolution or at least transformation, it serves both as a touching, tender document and as a thoroughly artful exercise in storytelling – one that, in methods and motifs, can claim a place on the shelf beside Berger, Sebald and Ondaatje. Widely hailed as the first Welsh classic of the 21st century... Boyd Tonkin (for the rest of his excellent review of the book see here).



The book was written in Welsh (and is very well translated by Lloyd Jones) and was awarded the Prose Medal at the 2002 National Eisteddfod and named Book of the Year by the Welsh Arts Council in 2003. Angharad Price is Senior Lecturer in the School of Welsh at Bangor University.