Library of Wales: Voices of the Children

Foreword by George Brinley Evans
The Voices of the Children is a delicate and heart-felt story of the golden, ephemeral, uncertain world of childhood. Set in a rural mining village in south Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, George Ewart Evans has recreated a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood.
'The hills were freedom, and the valley was the shop, milking the cow, errands, difficult customers, and, last of all, the new baby.'
“I hope you like it. Me, I loved it.” Gwyn Jones
The Voices of Children is an insightful novel based on George Ewart Evans's childhood in south Wales. It describes the reactions of a growing boy to his home environment and the changes within it. We are introduced to the Pritchard family, who's members are constantly changing, and who provide a colourful backdrop to this imaginative recreation of a valley childhood.
-- Publisher: Parthian Books