Lisa's review
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Lisa's review
rating:
bookshelves: fiction, reviewed
recommended for: everyone who enjoys a good novel, especially those interested in the Welsh/Wales
status: Read in January, 1966
rating:
bookshelves: fiction, reviewed
recommended for: everyone who enjoys a good novel, especially those interested in the Welsh/Wales
status: Read in January, 1966
My mother must have acquired this book shortly after it came out in America. Her mother was born in Wales, not from a mining family, I don’t think. Anyway, read her copy when I was twelve, and I still own it. (My mother had died by then, and my grandmother died before I was born so I never met my grandmother; I think the book made me feel closer to that part of the family. I had met a couple of the (Jewish) Welsh relatives when they visited the U.S.) But I remember that I did really like the family story and the writing style. Appreciated the Guide to Pronunciation of Welsh names that’s in the back of the book, even though it was only somewhat helpful.
