Author: richardllewellyn

The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford.   Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful–before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the … his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines.   Huw’s story is both joyful and heartrending–a portrait of a place and a people…