The Cormorant

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Pan fo teulu ifanc yn etifeddu bwthyn mynyddig, anghysbell yng ngogledd Cymru, gan gynnig cyfle iddynt newid cwrs eu bywydau, mae un amod rhyfedd yn yr ewyllys yn ymddangos yn ddiniwed ar yr olwg gyntaf. Rhaid iddynt ofalu am fulfran hyd at ei marwolaeth.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the one condition of the will seems strange but harmless. They are to care for a cormorant until the end of its life.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Stephen Gregory has been called a horror writer, although his novels and short stories reflect a love of the countryside and especially his interest in birds. The Cormorant, which won the Somerset Maugham Award and was made into a BBC television film, was written in and around the mountains of Snowdonia. After a year as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Stephen spent fifteen years teaching in Borneo, and during the long, hot tropical evenings he wrote four more novels, set back home in rural England and Wales. He now lives in France with his wife Chris, in a small house beside the river Vienne, while they're slowly rebuilding a 16th-century fortified farmhouse.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

When a young family inherit a remote mountain- side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives and start over, the one condition of the will seems strange but harmless. They are to care for a cormorant until the end of its life. But the bird is no tame pet, and within its natural state of wildness there is a malevolent intelligence and intent towards sharp, unexpected violence. However, it is the fascination it holds for Harry, the couple’s precious only child, that really threatens their dreams of rural contentment. A Somerset Maugham Award Winner when it was first published, the tale of The Cormorant continues to exert its considerable power. “A first-class terror story with a relentless focus that would have made Edgar Allan Poe proud.” New York Times