By Emyr Humphreys
During this ultimate novel of the Land of the residing series are the voices of the useless poet, John Cilydd extra, and his youngest son Peredur in a twin-track narrative. Humphreys received the English e-book of the 12 months 1999 on the Hay competition.
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It crowned whatever was left of her good looks. She straightened her back in a conscious effort to keep any incipient dowager’s hump at bay. She looked as wholesome as an idealised linedrawing of a wife and husband picking up the first instalment of a well-earned pension – except there was no husband. She had buried three on her journey to this one-storey modern dwelling and the twin set and pearls. ‘Now for my bit of news,’ she said. She smiled at each of us in turn as though she were examining her refurbished appearance in a triple mirror.
They could be important. Not a word to anyone. ’ Simons and Adams had caught up with me. Hefin Mather turned to the files and papers on his table with a great display of industry. He barely acknowledged a serene greeting from the assistant registrar. The conducted tour petered out when Adams expressed a disinclination to visit the extended gymnasium. Simons rubbed his hands together and suggested it was not too early to present ourselves at the Senior Common Room bar. It wasn’t easy to escape from his clutches but eventually I found my way across the quadrangle to the main entrance of the library and down the two flights of stairs to the dim underworld of the stacks.
I had to get him away. ‘Let’s go to the dunes,’ I said. ’ He stared at my inane grin with manifest suspicion. ‘It’s teatime,’ Harry said. ’ I groaned inwardly. This was another law of the universe. What could I do to subvert it? On an impulse I tried a cartwheel and then standing on my head. They were feeble attempts but I grinned and capered about like a clown who seeks to disparage his own expertise. The level of sound in the house was rising. Harry had heard it. My mother was screaming with rage.