Author(s): Pamela Swanborough (Illustrator, Editor)

Literature

It's 1969. High overhead, a man is preparing to walk on the moon. Down here in the valley, things are much more interesting.Suspiciously long-lived matriarch Lizzie Coombe expects her one hundredth birthday to be a day she'll remember. But what comes after will never be forgotten by anyone in this close-knit Welsh community. Some people aren't really as far from their pagan ancestors as they might like to think...Lizzie and her daughter Myfanwy only remember old love, granddaughter Sarah Maud is frightened by it¿ and great granddaughter Jenner doesn't seem to need it. As events and people spiral out of her control, Lizzie faces her own ghosts and sees she might have to do the unthinkable: care for her family.Thematically rich, Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones looks at tradition and change, family grief, and humans in a landscape, with lyric immersion.