Nefyn is a place in Wales, and it’s a place that is at the moment at the heart of quite a bit of political unrest because in Penllyn in general there have been lots of protests recently about second homes and young people unable to live where they’ve been brought up.

It’s an example of how information technology, counter-intuitively, can take us further away from deep knowledge and understanding. It was a beautiful, beautiful city, and the story goes that the king had a big party and the guardsmen at the door, who had to close the doors to keep the seas out at certain times of day, got drunk, and of course the whole city was drowned. It is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www. I read the book in one sitting and found the descriptions of the sea and the book's setting stunning. For fans of THE LAMPLIGHTERS and EXIT WEST, the hauntingly atmospheric English-language debut from the acclaimed, multi-award-winning Welsh author: a mesmerising love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syrian mapmaker.

Booker-winning author Saunders has been teaching the 19th-century Russian short story at Syracuse University for more than 20 years now and this book makes the class sound incredible. She is an initial enigma, suppressed in some strange way, until a sort of catharsis occurs after she finds a gravely injured man washed up on the shore, seemingly out of the blue. So yes, it was based on somewhere I know very well, that has lots of stories and language and folklore attached to it. Drift is a hypnotic tale of lost identity, the quest for home and the wondrous resilience of the human spirit.

Hamza reassures Nefyn: “I’ve seen how people treat each other in this world… You received me without judgement.

And there’s a lot about intermarriage with the people on the land, and about earning your freedom somehow. We’re in lambing season at the moment, and you will see crows circling lambs and taking their eyes and tongues, and that is as much a part of nature as the spring flowers and all the beauty that happens at this time of year, and that gives you a clear picture of the duality of nature.