The Old and the Young

The latest title in the Seren Classics series is this 1948 collection of Margiad Evans's short stories. These fifteen stories, written between 1933 and the late 1940's, address a wide variety of subjects and themes. Welsh country life and the folk tale influences are present as they are in all of Evans's writing. So too are the twin issues of illness and invalidity and their effects upon both victim and care givers. All show her strength in portraying relationships, from the repositioning o...