Lines

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Paragon Publishing

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491_9781782227274

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It may be the Roaring Twenties, but no one has told Fishguard about it. This little town, sitting with its sibling Goodwick at the far end of the Great Western railway line and the trunk road from London, is a remote little community, carving a living through fishing, farming and whatever local ingenuity can conjure up. This is a book about lines – lines on a map but also family lines and how they meet, cross and meet again. It is a tale of a time when make-do and mend keep grown-up minds occupied and make-believe keeps the young entertained; when oddballs, down-and-outs and even prisoners-of-war are made welcome; when religion battles – often in vain – for prominence over the silver screen and the demon drink; when extended family not only provides a much-needed social safety net but yields many and often amusing eccentricities. It is a narrative set against a quintessentially Welsh backdrop – of language, music and song, coal-mining and Chapel, socialism and nationalism. But most of all it is a love story between Les and Mair who meet briefly as young teenagers but will follow different paths for almost a decade and half as work, war and other loves separate them. It is a story of lines, but not the end of the line…

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