Library of Wales: A Man's Estate

Emyr Humphreys was born at Trelawnyd in Flintshire. During his long bilingual writing career, he has published over twenty novels, which include such classics as A Toy Epic(1958), Outside the House of Baal(1965), and The Land of the Living, an epic sequence of seven novels. He has also written plays for stage and television, short stories, The Taliesin Tradition(a cultural history of Wales), and published his Collected Poemsin 1999. Among many honours, he has been awarded The Somerset Maugham Prize, The Hawthornden Prize, and the Welsh Book of the Year Award.

A Man's Estate is the vexed Matter of Wales as seen through the unflinching gaze of that Wales' greatest novelist Emyr Humphreys.Hannah Ellis is thirty-five, unmarried and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father, a forbidding man with a powerful hold on the neighborhood. Loving her country, yet resenting the egotism of her family, she yearns for the return of her long-banished brother Philip, believing that he will rescue her from this bleak existence. But Hannah little realises that Philip's arrival is imminent, and is to herald enormous changes as he unwittingly ignites the passions and strengths of an unusually intertwined community.