{"product_id":"how-green-was-my-valley-1","title":"How Green Was My Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons - at the kitchen table, at Chapel and around the pit-head. Looking back on the hardships of his early life, where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939, \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century. Poetic and nostalgic, it is an elegy to a lost world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, claimed to have been born in St David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon, Middlesex. His famous first novel \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley \u003c\/i\u003e(1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India, and was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford. \u003ci\u003eNone But the Lonely\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeart\u003c\/i\u003e, his second novel, was published in 1943, and subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant and Ethel Barrymore. As well as novels including \u003ci\u003eGreen, Green My Valley Now \u003c\/i\u003e(1975) and \u003ci\u003eI Stand on a Quiet Shore \u003c\/i\u003e(1982), Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays, \u003ci\u003ePoison Pen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNoose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eHow Green Was My Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, you might like Barry Hines' \u003ci\u003eA Kestrel for a Knave\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Vivid, eloquent, poetical, glowing with an inner flame of emotion'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220792824152,"sku":"9780141185859","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141185859_e2b238e3-024e-4964-8ebc-f7249d15b906.jpg?v=1768973428","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/how-green-was-my-valley-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}