Twenty Thousand Saints by Fflur Dafydd
ISBN: 978-0-9555272-2-7£9.99
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Archaeologist Deian returns to the island of his childhood, where his mother disappeared without a trace. Sister Viv, closet heretic and host of the annual conference of hermits, has erected a gold plaque in her memory, declaring her unofficial sainthood. Meanwhile, documentary-maker Leri is keen to portray the island's inhabitants as anything but saintly, pursuing a story that has less to do with birds and saints' bones than with real bloodshed. During this hot August week, a writer-in-residence observes lives colliding, as Bardsey twirls once more for the cameras...
A black comedy about finds, losses, secrets, privacy and intrusion... and how the most important things always happen off-camera.
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Novelist and singer-songwriter Fflur Dafydd is a graduate of UEA's Creative Writing MA. She was selected in 2005 for the Scritture Giovani project for emerging writers, and has performed in festivals throughout Europe, undertaking residencies in Helsinki and on Bardsey Island. She has a PhD on the poetry of RS Thomas, and currently lectures in Creative Writing at Swansea University. At 31, she is the author of three Welsh-language novels, one of which (Atyniad) won the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal in 2006, and the most recent of which (Y Llyfrgell) won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize in August 2009. This is her first novel in English.
Fflur represented Wales for the preliminary literary programme of the Wales at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, in a tour dubbed Washington Meets Wales, spring 09. She also participated in the autumn at the prestigious Iowa International Writing Program, Iowa University, USA Residence Details
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