Clare Dudman

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Clare Dudman

Clare Dudman was born in North Wales. She has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate in UMIST, a development scientist in industry, a science teacher, a lecturer and as a creative writing tutor for the WEA and the MA in creative writing at University College Chester. She is a member of the Welsh Academy.

In 1995 her children’s novel Edge of Danger won the Kathleen Fidler award and in 2001 an excerpt fromWegener’s Jigsaw won an Arts Council of England Writers award. A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees is her first book for Seren.

Visit Clare’s literary blog Keeper of The Snails

Books by Clare Dudman
A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees


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‘A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees’ Reviews

A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees by Clare Dudman.

An intensely moving novel based on stories about the trails and triumphs of nineteenth-century Welsh immigrants attempting to set up a Welsh-speaking colony in Patagonia. The protagonist Silas James is a character you instantly connect with, and the in-depth descriptions make you feel as though you are sitting in the Patagonian desert. A word of caution: this storry is filled with tragedy, so have your tissues at the ready.

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Patagonia Release

Last night at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Welsh director Marc Evan’s premiered his new film Patagonia starring the Welsh-born-Hollywood-turned actor Matthew Rhys and Grammy Award winner Duffy.

The film is about the Welsh Colony, Y Wladfam in Patagonia, South America.

Interested in Patagonia?

Check out Clare Dudman’s A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees published in June 2010.

Impoverished and oppressed, they’d been promised paradise on earth: a land flowing with milk and honey. But what the settlers found after a devastating sea journey was a cold South American desert where nothing could survive except tribes of nomadic Tehuelche Indians, possibly intent on massacring them.

Silas James fears he has been tricked into sacrificing everything he loves for another man’s impossible dream. But despite his hatred of the politically adept Edwyn Owen, and under the watchful eye of Indian shaman Yelue, a new culture takes root as an old one passes away.

A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees is a lyrical and insightful evocation of the trials of the first Welsh Patagonian colonists as they battle to survive hunger, loss, and each other.