I enjoyed this even more than The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals, the first book about Wilfred and other inhabitants of Narbeth. I loved the feel of West Wales, the small-town-ness of it all, and some of the sentences are priceless - "them? they only fart to frighten themselves", about the opposition tug of war team! Some books, you can hear the voices in your head and this is one of them. There is a real Welshness about this and it's glorious. I will just say that this book will take you to a few dark places, but Wilfred, who got the lovely Flora Myfanwy as his wife, finds his character developing (as I did too) with a strength he didn't know he had. Lovely read.
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Friday 3 April 2015
The World is a Wedding - Wendy Jones
I enjoyed this even more than The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals, the first book about Wilfred and other inhabitants of Narbeth. I loved the feel of West Wales, the small-town-ness of it all, and some of the sentences are priceless - "them? they only fart to frighten themselves", about the opposition tug of war team! Some books, you can hear the voices in your head and this is one of them. There is a real Welshness about this and it's glorious. I will just say that this book will take you to a few dark places, but Wilfred, who got the lovely Flora Myfanwy as his wife, finds his character developing (as I did too) with a strength he didn't know he had. Lovely read.
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