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Tide race
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Tide race
Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island) off the Lleyn peninsula is the setting of Brenda ChamberlainÂ’s hybrid text. Part novel, part journal, the island (a place of ancient Christian pilgrimage) was home for Brenda between 1947 and 1961. The island is more than a back drop as its sheer wilderness shapes and orders the lives of its inhabitants. Tide-Race encompasses a breadth of experience from Jack Issacson the Ancient Mariner to the children of the island who could not ask for a more unique playground. With a population of less than fifty there is still plenty for Chamberlain to chronicle including the quarrels of nosey neighbours, the superstitious fishermen and bodies washing up on the islandÂ’s shores. This is an evocative account of life only islanders can comprehend, intertwined with BrendaÂ’s own line drawings of the islanders themselves- it is an account of Wales and all of its elements.
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