And - A Memoir of My Mother

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Isabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work has been exhibited in the Tate Gallery. Growing up in London, Sudan and Wales, with a cold and distant father and an isolated mother, Adonis explores the nature of identity, culture and desire as shaped by her childhood impressions of her parents.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Isabel Adonis is a mother, a writer and an artist. She has been published in the New Welsh Review, Urban Welsh, Just So You Know, and the Journal of Caribbean Literature. She was the winner of Best Article 2002 in Impact magazine. Born in Kilburn in north London to a Welsh mother and West Indian father, Isabel moved to the Sudan at age six and back to Wales at age nine, where she grew up in Llandudno. As a writer she focuses on race and identity. This is her first book.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Simultaneously personal and universal, and told in the rhythms of an oral story, this beautifully musical and multi-layered book examines the divisiveness of colour, alienation, the impact of colonialism on social culture, and what it means to be ‘mixed’. An essential read that portrays an important aspect of the culturally diverse social fabric of Wales and the wider world. Review by Paul Theroux "I admire this book - a family entangled in Wales and the West Indies and Africa - a dominant father casting his shadow over the narrative. It is a complex memoir, related in a quiet and incantatory way, for which the word. "Faulknerian" is not an exaggeration. It is in many ways a dark tale, but its heart and its humanity gives it great power." Review by Jim Perrin " And is the freshest, most exquisitely written, most observant, complex and insightful cultural memoir ever written about growing up in North Wales. I thoroughly recommend it to you."