Flesh and Blood is the first of seven novels which make up The Land of the Living, a sequence which is one of the finest achievements of Welsh writing in English. Amy Parry is the central character of the series, and it is her struggles and the trials and tribulations of her family and friends that provide the framework of a complex model of twentieth-century experience, centred for the most part on Welsh life.

Flesh and blood

Humphreys, Emyr

Literature & Fiction

Hodder and Stroughton

National winner

Macdonald and Co

238p hardback with blue dustjacket, excellent fresh copy, as new, with stray library stamp to back of title page, a fine copy

Hear and forgive

Macdonald Co.

An absolute hero

Dent

The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain.

Open secrets

Genre Fiction

Flesh and Blood (University of Wales Press - Land of the Living)

Literary

University of Wales Press

The Best of Friends is the second of seven novels which make up The Land of the Living, a series which is one of the finest achievements of Welsh writing in English.

Best of Friends, The (University of Wales Press - Land of the Living)

This, the third of the novels in the series The Land of the Living, which began with Flesh and Blood and The Best of Friends, follows the career of the central character, Amy Parry, who is now a county school teacher in a small coastal resort on the Llµn peninsula.

Salt of the Earth (University of Wales Press - Land of the Living)

<p>The fourth of the novels in The Land of the Living sequence finds Amy Parry bereft of her best friend Enid who has died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. When she marries John Cilydd More, companionship and motherhood bring her security and some fulfilment. But her peaceful existence is invaded by the turbulence of striking miners and hunger marchers – and the return of Pen Lewis. The events of the Spanish Civil War come to hold great significance in 1930s Wales, and particularly for Amy.</p>

An Absolute Hero (University of Wales Press - Land of the Living)

Open Secrets, the fifth volume in the Land of the Living sequence, finds Amy Parry and her husband, the poet John Cilydd More, confronted with not only the destruction and desperation of the Second World War, but also the strain of conflicting political beliefs on their marriage. As Amy struggles to balance her loyalty to her family with her own independent ambitions, she becomes involved with the welfare of German refugees, the Labour movement and war work in ways that find little favour with her husband and even less with Nanw, her jealous sister-in-law. Their compelling story unfolds against the turmoil of a radically changing world.

Open Secrets (Land of the Living)

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