SUCH MORNING SONGS. By Desley Moore.

(1992) 1993 reprint. 8vo (137 x 222mm). Pp311. Not illustrated. Blue boards, gilt titles and decorations to spine.

"These moving chronicles of Davy and three generations of the Rees family are at once tender and tragic, hugely comic and historically authentic." Desley Moore presents a lightly fictionalised account of her own life in Newtown, Montgomeryshire. Chapters include: Psalms and herrings; Cakes and corpse candles; Tall chimneys and Judas Iscariot; Rabbits and pageboys; Buttons and tramps; Haystacks and homecomings; Sideshows and exits; Logic and judgements; Handcuffs and drumsticks; Philosophy and petticoats; Rhubarb and rejection; Flies and floods; Salvation and nuptials; Turnkeys and outings; Hooters and hoses; Sherry and monkshood; Revelations and moving pictures; Riddles and tippit; Beginnings and ends; Drums and sunsets.