Library of Wales: Withered Root, The

A novel recounting the troubled life of Reuben Daniels, reared in a south Wales valley, in Nonconformist culture. He is a young man full of life and its desires but still unsure of its meaning. A man absorbed - driven to expound the gospel. But in the new world of salvation there is conflict between the physical and the spiritual as his odyssey becomes a test for his mind, body & soul.