How Green Was My Valley

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Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory.

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Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novelHow Green Was My Valley(1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford.None But the LonelyHeart, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels includingGreen, Green My Valley Now(1975) andI Stand on a Quiet Shore(1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays,Poison PenandNoose.