Amy Parry is bereft of her best friend who died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis. So she marries John Cilydd More, but her peace is soon shattered by strikes and then Pen returns.
The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain.
The 6th in the series, Amy, on the death of her husband, is now the mistress of Brangor Hall. However, it is the death of her 2nd husband Cilydd, a poet and Eistedfodd winner, that obsesses her younger son and fuels his dislike of her. Her other son Gwydion is also planning something.
In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother's hostility and his brothers' lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father's death and to take part in a protest against the 1969 Investiture that goes violently wrong. Only at the end when Amy Parry faces death can reconciliation be achieved.
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