2008-05-31 A beautifully rendered novella

I came across this novella as a "Book at Bedtime" on Radio 4, and I'm so glad I did. I had never heard of this writer or book. It is the story of a dairy maid, Ann Goodman, living on the English/ Welsh border in the nineteenth century. She torn between her warring desires, her English and Welsh sides, as much as she is between the two men in her life, one English, one Welsh. You know that this is never going to have a happy outcome, but the economical rendition of Ann's words in her journal give the novella a beautiful elegance.