First published in 2018

by Firefly Press

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Text copyright Eloise Williams 2018

The author asserts her moral right to be identified as author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act, 1988.

All rights reserved.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form, binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-910080-80-1

ebook ISBN 978-1-910080-81-8

This book has been published with the support of the Welsh Books Council.

Typeset by Elaine Sharples

Chapter heading artwork by Guy Manning

The poem 'Cofio' by Waldo Williams is reproduced by kind permission from Eluned Richards (for the estate of Waldo Williams). The translation of 'Cofio', Waldo Williams, is reproduced here by kind permission of Alan Llwyd and Cyhoeddiadau Barddas (Barddas Publications). The translation first appeared in Stori Waldo Williams: Bardd Heddwch/The Story of Waldo Williams: Poet of Peace (2010).