The Summer Flood

The latest title in Parthian’s Library of Wales series.
With a foreword by Mike Parker and an afterword by Norena Shopland.

‘He is a hero – a flawed one of course, but a true hero all the same.... We have so much to thank him for.’ – Mike Parker

‘Goronwy Rees... won many admirers, male and female, but made as many enemies.’ – Kenneth O. Morgan

‘Goronwy Rees’s Summer Flood occupies an important place in the vanguard of queer literature.’ – Norena Shopland

Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. Having left for university and completing his first year with a month in Germany, Owen returns as a changed man, altered by his experience of independence, new friendships, and the exploration of desire.Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. The world has changed for Morgan. He is a man coming to terms with himself. University has offered new experiences; desires he had suspected but never acted upon have become real. It was a crime against both the law and God. He asks for forgiveness each time. A month in the decadence of Weimar Germany has shocked and enthralled him. At home, his cousin Nest waits for him; patient, loving. Matthews will be waiting for him in college; impatient, demanding.