The White Lane

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Autobiography translated for non-Welsh speakers, offering intimate insight into a north Wales community.

Kate Roberts (1891-1985) is celebrated as the undisputed queen of Welsh literature. This, the first full-length version of her autobiography to appear in English, brings to a non Welsh-speaking audience the intimacy and idiomatic richness of the author's voice, mediated by former National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke's evocative, delicate translation. In the tradition of the Welsh hunangofiant (autobiography), Kate Roberts introduces us to a community, rather than an individual. Taking her reader on a tour of Rhosgadfan, the tiny north Wales village in which she grew up at the turn of the last century, she paints an eloquent depiction of herself as a sensitive young girl who had little notion that she was destined for greatness.