Book description
The wedding of Llinos Savage, the young saviour of the Savage
Pottery, and the fascinating Joe Mainwaring , sets the small sea front
town of Swansea ablaze with gossip. Joe , born of an unlikely alliance
between a native American squaw and a wealthy British businessman, is
always perceived by the Swansea elite as a foreigner and an outsider.
When Llinos's father dies after a long illness, she is devastated, but
her grief turns to fear when Joe is accused of his father-in-law's
murder by the local doctor and is incarcerated inside the walls of the
castle along with thieves and debtors. There among the filth and dirt,
Joe makes friends with an old Jewish man, and this brief friendship,
formed in the most ill-fated circumstances, proves to be the catalyst
to a series of events which unexpectedly threaten to destroy the
marriage and the very lives of Joe and Llinos.
Iris Gower has created a wonderful background of the romantic china
clay industry of South Wales for her new and dramatic novel sequence.
Iris Gower was born in Swansea, where she still lives. The mother of
four grown-up children, she has written over twenty bestselling novels.
She received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Wales Swansea
in 1999 and has been awarded an MA in Creative Writing from the
University of Cardiff.
