Return Ticket - Roberts, Eigra Lewis
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Growing up in a slate-quarrying town in North Wales in the late 1940s-early 1950s, Helen Owen is continually caught between conflicting values and interests. At school, Mrs Edwards encourages her to write poetry, whilst Miss Hughes berates her for her poor maths. In Sunday School she learns of a God which wants to forgive her and punish her at the same time. She finds Eleanor Parry disgusting, but still wants to know what she and Billy got up to behind Dwyryd Terrace. And for all their goodness, even her loving parents have their secrets.Affectionate, humorous and perceptive, Return Ticket is a story of reluctant but inevitable transition.…mehr

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Growing up in a slate-quarrying town in North Wales in the late 1940s-early 1950s, Helen Owen is continually caught between conflicting values and interests. At school, Mrs Edwards encourages her to write poetry, whilst Miss Hughes berates her for her poor maths. In Sunday School she learns of a God which wants to forgive her and punish her at the same time. She finds Eleanor Parry disgusting, but still wants to know what she and Billy got up to behind Dwyryd Terrace. And for all their goodness, even her loving parents have their secrets.Affectionate, humorous and perceptive, Return Ticket is a story of reluctant but inevitable transition.
Autorenporträt
Mae Eigra Lewis Roberts yn un o brif lenorion Cymru. Fe'i ganed ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog a'i haddysgu yng Ngholeg y Brifysgol, Bangor. Mae'n byw bellach yn Nolwyddelan ac yn briod gyda thri o blant a deuddeg o wyrion ac wyresau. Cyhoeddwyd ei nofel gyntaf, Brynhyfryd, pan oedd hi ond ugain oed ac ers hynny bu'n awdur toreth o gyfrolau, gan gynnwys nofelau, straeon byrion, llyfrau i blant, cofiannau a drama. Enillodd y Fedal Ryddiaith yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol 1965 a 1968 a Thlws y Ddrama yn 1974. Hi oedd awdures y gyfres deledu 'Minafon'. Enillodd y Goron yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Abertawe yn 2006 a gosodwyd ei chasgliad o straeon byrion, Oni Bai, ar Restr Hir Llyfr y Flwyddyn yn 2006. Cyhoeddodd ei chyfrol ddiweddaraf, Pry ar y Wal yn 2017.