Book description
>Why has woodwork teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to
carve wooden feathers that will float on an updraft? Why is the
undertaker Tutt Bevan trying to find a straight path through the town?
Why does James Little, the old gas-meter emptier, dig his allotment by
moonlight? And why does window cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves
into a disused chapel?
These and other men of the town, and the women who mothered them,
married them and mourned them, are bound together by the echoes of the
Kindly Light tragedy and by the mysterious figure of Ianto Jenkins,
whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love, form an
unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry.
The Coward's Tale
is a powerfully imagined, poetic and haunting novel, spiked with
humour. It is a story of kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and
the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past.>
'Tender and gripping - a brilliantly written epic' Maggie Gee 'The
unlikely but entirely legitimate child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and
Dylan Thomas, The Coward's Tale invests everyday life with a quality at
once whimsical and heroic' Charles Lambert >Why has woodwork
teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to carve wooden feathers
that will float on an updraft? Why is the undertaker Tutt Bevan trying
to find a straight path through the town? Why does James Little, the old
gas-meter emptier, dig his allotment by moonlight? And why does window
cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves into a disused chapel?
These and other men of the town, and the women who mothered them,
married them and mourned them, are bound together by the echoes of the
Kindly Light tragedy and by the mysterious figure of Ianto Jenkins,
whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love, form an
unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry.
The Coward's Tale
is a powerfully imagined, poetic and haunting novel, spiked with
humour. It is a story of kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and
the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past.>
