Spring's Green Shadow - Softcover

Cecily Mackworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912905531 ISBN 13: 9781912905539

Publisher: Honno Welsh Women'S Press, 2022

Synopsis

Laura Gethryn spends the first 7 years of her life in Monmouthshire where her father's family have been landowners for centuries. Her horsey mother idolizes the absent soldier and his return a broken man, emasculated by the Great War, leaves them destined to remain the disappointed parents of a single girl child. Caught up in the dance of dysfunction that is their marriage, they hand over Laura's education to Mr Howells, a very different man to Gethryn. Welsh speaking, working-class and intellectual, he, his talented daughter, Mair, and disaffected son, Idris, open Laura's eyes to a surprising new world. Years later, Laura receives in the mail a package: Mr Howell's Parisian notebooks detailing his failure to escape the chains of his upbringing. Reading them, destroying them, may be the biggest service she does both her mentor and her future self.

About this title

About the Author

Cecily Mackworth

was born in Monmouthshire in 1911, to a Welsh military family. She studied journalism at the London School of Economics. She spent time in Hungary and Germany, witnessing the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, before settling in Paris in 1936. Forced to flee Paris in 1940, she worked briefly for the Free French in London during the war. Her first major writing success detailed her escape from the Nazi advance, I Came out of France (1941). After the war she wrote studies on the poets Francois Villon (1947) and Guillaume Apollinaire (1967). She was one of two female journalists working in Palestine at the time of the birth of Israel, and published a book about the experience, The Mouth of the Sword, in 1949. Her book, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, was published in 1954. She published two novels, Spring's Green Shadow (1952) and Lucy's Nose (1992), and two volumes of autobiography, Ends of the World (1987) and Out of the Black Mountains, the latter completed weeks before her death in 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: Honno Welsh Women'S Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912905531
• ISBN 13: 9781912905539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232