That was the horror of love: your sweetheart could stick a knife into your eyeball and sharpen it a notch every chance they got. Mari supplements her modest stock as a market-stallholder with the trinkets she acquires clearing the houses of the dead. Living in a tiny cottage by the shore – alone apart from a pet cat and the monkey, Nanw – she surrounds herself with the lives of others, combing through letters she has gleaned and putting up photographs of strangers on her small mantelpiece for company. Mari is looking for something beyond saleable goods and borrowed memories. As she works on cutting the perfect emerald, she inches closer to a discovery that will transform her life and throw her relationships with old friends into relief. To move forward she must shed her life of things past and start again. How she does so is both surprising and shocking…
Circa l’autore
Gwen Davies grew up with her three siblings in a Welsh-speaking home in West Yorkshire. She polished up her language and reclaimed her Welsh identity at Aberystwyth University in the 1980s and has edited the literary journal, New Welsh Review, since 2011. As well as being a writer’s mentor for Literature Wales and a creative- and copy-editor for a number of book publishers and individual authors, she is a literary translator from Welsh to English. Among her book publications as translator are (as cotranslator with the author), White Star (Robin Llywelyn, 2003) and (as sole translator), Martha, Jack And Shanco (Caryl Lewis, 2007). She is contributing editor of the gothic short-fiction collection inspired by folk tales, Sing Sorrow Sorrow: Dark And Chilling Tales (2010). Her shorter translations, of the fiction of Caryl Lewis and Mihangel Morgan as well as the poetry of Hywel Meilyr Griffiths, have been published in Best European Fiction 2011 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and Best European Fiction 2019 (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018), as well as in New Welsh Reader/Review and the 26 Treasures anthology (Unbound, 2012). Her debut original short story, the queer, gothic, feminist The Hardest Button to Button, was published in New Welsh Reader 119 (winter 2018).She lives in Aberystwyth with her family.
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