Library of Wales: Turf or Stone

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Ar ddiwrnod rhewllyd yn y gaeaf mae Mary Bicknor, ffrind i hen wraig gyfoethog, yn priodi Easter Probert, ac mae hi'n disgwyl ei blentyn. Mae hi'n llefain drwy'r gwasanaeth, sy'n cael ei weinyddu gan y ficer. Ac mae pethau'n mynd o ddrwg i waeth iddi. Cyhoeddwyd Turf or Stone gyntaf yn 1934.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

On a frozen winter's day, Mary Bicknor, the companion of a wealthy old woman, is married to groom Easter Probert, whose child she is expecting. She cries bitterly throughout the service, which has been engineered by the vicar. Things then go from bad to worse. Turf or Stone was first published in 1934.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Margiad Evans was born Peggy Whistler in Uxbridge in 1909, but it was the Border Country around Ross-on-Wye which became central to her consciousness and her writing. She took the name Margiad Evans to reflect this sense of identity. Her first novel, Country Dance , was published in 1932, and is known as ‘The Welsh Wuthering Heights’. She also produced poetry and art, as well as two memoirs, including an account of her experiences of epilepsy.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

A forced wedding in a freezing country church, where the only sound is the bride’s tears: so starts Mary Bicknor’s life of misery with the brutish Easter Probert, groom to the oddly assorted Kilminster family. In a tale of passion, violence, cruelty and unexpected tenderness, Margiad Evans conjures a tempestuous and sometimes sinister world of rural and small-town border life in the early twentieth century.