January 2006

Library of Wales series book 5

1902638840

Country Dance is a sharply observed first person account of passion, murder and cultural conflict played out in the person of the young Ann Goodman, who is torn by ‘the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood’, Welsh and English. In this love story, set in the late nineteenth century, the rural way of life is no idyll, but a savage and exacting struggle for survival: sheep scab, failed crops, alcoholism and violence are juxtaposed with blackberrying and butter-making, all recounted in Margiad Evans’s deceptively quiet style.