内容简介：
Trystan Morgan comes of peasant-farming stock, though some of his kin have moved from the hillside to the valley to work in the mines. He is brought up by a loving, hardworking, deeply religious grandmother whose early widowhood has made her life one of endless toil. Trystan can just remember his early days in the hill cottage and remains in touch with the countryside by going to stay with kindly aunts and uncles there. We journey with Trystan from childhood, to a Welsh university, to the threshold of a career as a painter...