Arianwen

Author: Angela Johnson

ISBN: 9781913853006

Publication Date: 23 September 2020

Publisher: Black Bee Books Ltd

Edited by Seonaid Francis

Format: Paperback, 198x129 mm, 240 pages

Language: English

Arianwen is someone for whom life comes easily. Hers is an ordinary life, in a hidden valley in West Wales during the first half of the 20th century, filled with the small pleasures that help us bear life's little tragedies. But in a fast-changing world Arianwen must learn the hard way. It is endurance that will see her through real adversity.

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Author Biography:

Angela Johnson was born in West Wales, and is a Welsh speaker. Her work is often inspired by the Welsh countryside, and the characters she knew in childhood, and the tales they told.

In a previous incarnation she was an English teacher and taught in a number of schools in the South East of England She then studied Creative Writing at the University of Kent.

Her novel ‘Harriet and her Women’ was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for Fiction, and she has won the Poetry Prize at the Folkestone Arts Festival.

She lives in Kent, enjoys travelling to look at birds and plants in exotic places, and is a passionate environmentalist, and, latterly, is spending too much time fulminating about politics.