Fiction
Category: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Number of pages: 223
ISBN: 9781854113900
Publication date: October 17, 2005
Price: £7.99
Eddie Lloyd, troubled son of the famous Welsh actor Orlando Lloyd is introduced to ambitious film-maker Bethan Mair Nichols, and immediately finds himself captivated by the intense young woman. It transpires that Bethan’s Great Aunt Sulwen has left her a derelict shop in rural Wales. As the novel and their relationship progresses, Bethan’s legacy becomes increasingly contentious, until a brutal assault allows the couple to reassess their fraught relationship.
The Shop is a work of immense richness and sophistication; compassionate, deeply intelligent and engaging, it is a novel about the power exerted over our lives by our ancestral and cultural heritage, about the impact which the ghosts of the past have upon the present.
Emyr Humphries is the author of twenty previous novels, as well as several collections of short stories, poetry and Welsh history.
Emyr Humphreys
Emyr Humphreys (1919-2020) was born in Prestatyn, Denbighshire. He is the author of twenty novels in English and Welsh, and has also published collections of stories and poetry. He has written screenplays and adapted other works for television and radio, in addition to producing and directing in both of those media. His novels have won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, Hawthornden and other prizes.
Photo by Bernard Mitchell.
