This is one of our own author's books, published by us, so obviously I absolutely love it! This is an up and coming, brilliant author, living in Wales.

Blaenavon and Abergavenny surge to life in this vibrant, haunting, joyful masterpiece, a celebration of the Welsh people in the 1920s to '40s. "The Mountains Between" is a saga of two families and their communities - farmers and miners, villagers and warriors, singers and mourners, noble and ignoble, cowardly and brave, in a smorgasbord that keeps the pages in perpetual motion.

Little Jennie grows up in the 1920's and 30's on a valley farm near Abergavenny: a childhood dominated by the love of father and siblings, and the hatred of an obsessive mother - fighting to keep her balance in the face of an unbalanced parent and the deepest heart-blows a child can bear. Her life is completely different from that of young Harry Jenkins, born into a Blaenavon mining community repeatedly struck by disaster. Through tragic marriages to other people, into World War Two and beyond, both must overcome their personal devastations before they are ready to love again. ( )