Swansea Girl

Encompassing experiences from the 1920s to the 1940s, this powerful childhood memoir focuses on one woman's upbringing in industrial South Wales. With vivid accounts of the two World Wars, a Baptist household, and an elementary school education, this powerful account is grouped thematically to reveal thoughts on family life and the compelling influences of culture, politics, religion, and love in one Welsh community in the early 20th century.