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A review by jhnd
Feet in Chains by Kate Roberts
5.0
This is an uncompromising and brilliant book. A superbly crafted tale of life for working people in rural north west Wales at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth century.
The characters are created as if hewn from the landscape itself. You understand the many layers of their lives through Roberts' powerful prose. You feel their struggles and hurts. There's no romanticism. Neither does Roberts preach. Welsh or not, this is a great work of literature and should be more widely known.
The characters are created as if hewn from the landscape itself. You understand the many layers of their lives through Roberts' powerful prose. You feel their struggles and hurts. There's no romanticism. Neither does Roberts preach. Welsh or not, this is a great work of literature and should be more widely known.