National Eisteddfod Prose Medal Winner

‘Mae saernïaeth y cyfanwaith yn eithriadol gelfydd a chaboledig; mae’r sgrifennu’n ddwys o delynegol; ac mae’r iaith yn gyfoethog o hardd.’

M. Wynn Thomas

‘The composition is

crafted with exceptional artistry and polish; the writing is intensely lyrical, and the language is richly beautiful.’

M. Wynn Thomas

‘A brilliant fusion of lyricism and post-feminism.’

Vaughan Hughes

Translated from the Welsh by the author.

In these linked short stories Sonia Edwards’ characters spin out their interwoven lives; the shifting perspective of each story serving to illuminate another facet of truth and experience.

At the heart of each there is the poet Dafydd and Gywneth, ‘his eternal little sister’ - a beautiful childlike woman, whose vulnerability touches the lives of those around her with both love and the tragedy of love’s losses.

Past and present, memory and poetry, passion and guilt are the threads that hold these characters in the thrall of Edwards’ spellbinding narrative.

Sonia Edwards was born at Cemaes in Anglesey. A White Veil for Tomorrow won the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod in 1999. She has published two other collections of short stories – Glas Ydi’r Nefoedd and Gloynnod which won Welsh Book of the Year in 1996. She has also published four novels Cysgu Ar Eithin (1994), Llen Dros yr Haul (1997), Cadwyn o Flodau (2000) and Cywion Uffern (2000). In 1998 she published a volume of poetry Y Llais yn y Llun.

She lives and works in Llangefni where she teaches Welsh.