My Father's Places: A Memoir by Dylan Thomas' Daughter

My Father's Places: A Memoir by Dylan Thomas' Daughter

by Aeronwy Thomas
My Father's Places: A Memoir by Dylan Thomas' Daughter

My Father's Places: A Memoir by Dylan Thomas' Daughter

by Aeronwy Thomas

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Overview

When Aeronwy was six, her parents Dylan and Caitlin Thomas moved to the boathouse at the edge of the small Welsh village Laugharne. Through a child’s eye, she recalls the chaos and joy of living with Dylan Thomas while the poet was at the height of his creative powers, composing Under Milk Wood. Through a series of beautifully evocative episodes, village and family life are explored. Emerging from the narrative, Aeronwy tells a moving memoir of growing up in Wales in the 1940s and a new portrait of Dylan Thomas as a father from the only person who could tell that story. This literary sensation includes never-before-seen photos of Dylan Thomas and his family, will get widespread attention, and features personalities like Augustus John, A.J.P. Taylor, as well as the villagers who would eventually be transformed into the characters from Llareggub.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781616081010
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 09/01/2010
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Aeronwy Thomas was the only daughter of Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin, and was her father’s literary executor. A writer and a poet in her own right, she was also president of the Dylan Thomas
Society, patron of the Dylan Thomas Award, president of the
Association of Literary Societies, and president of Swansea Little
Theatre. She regularly lectured and attended readings around the world up until her sad death in 2009, just before the UK publication of her memoir
My Father's Places.
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