'Country Dance is a lost classic.' BBC Arts
'Written with terse, incisive power ... the novels of Margiad Evans glow with a dark... passionate light.' Derek Savage
'A phenomenon in Border Country writing.' John Powell Ward
Country Dance is a story of passion, jealousy and revenge centred around a
young woman torn between the opportunities and dangers of her life who grows
up in an isolated rural community on the border between England and Wales.
A classic love story where the rural way of life is no idyll, but a savage and
exacting battle for survival.
young woman torn between the opportunities and dangers of her life who grows
up in an isolated rural community on the border between England and Wales.
A classic love story where the rural way of life is no idyll, but a savage and
exacting battle for survival.
About the author:
Artist and writer Margiad Evans was born in Uxbridge in 1909, but it was the border country between Wales and England along the Wye valley which became central to her consciousness and her writing. Her work includes The Wooden Doctor (1933); Turf or Stone (1934), and Creed (1936), as well as non-fiction, short stories, autobiography and two collections of poetry, Poems from Obscurity
(1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.
(1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.