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.
Emyr Humphreys was a leading Welsh novelist, poet and author, writing in both English and Welsh. His career spanned from the 1940s until his retirement in 2009.