Artist and writer Margiad Evans was born in Uxbridge in 1909, but it was theborder country between Wales and England along the Wye valley which becamecentral to her consciousness and her writing. Her work includes The WoodenDoctor (1933); Turf or Stone (1934), and Creed (1936), as well as non-fiction,short stories, autobiography and two collections of poetry, Poems fromObscurity (1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.

`Written with terse incisive power... the novels of Margiad Evans glow with a dark... passionate light..' Derek Savage

Artist and writer Margiad Evans was born in Uxbridge in 1909, but it was theborder country between Wales and England along the Wye valley which becamecentral to her consciousness and her writing. Her work includes The WoodenDoctor (1933); Turf or Stone (1934), and Creed (1936), as well as non-fiction,short stories, autobiography and two collections of poetry, Poems fromObscurity (1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.

`Written with terse incisive power... the novels of Margiad Evans glow with a dark... passionate light..' Derek Savage