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DOES HE SPEAK WELSH?
by
John Scott

In this delightful, childhood memoir the author takes us back to the time when he was evacuated from wartime Newcastle, with his mother, to stay with an elderly aunt in Wales. It was a time when the local people all conversed fluently in their own native tongue, and the diverse characters he met, uncles, aunts, and cousins several times removed, were a fascination for the young lad. Not least, was his Uncle Bob the local baker who introduced him to the mysteries of bread-making, which stayed with him all his life. 

A year or so later, mother and son left the safe, slow lifestyle of seaside Pwllheli, and its surrounding mountainous countryside, to rejoin his father in Newcastle and  then onto York just in time to survive the German bombing raid on that city.  The book follows the family’s fortune and the author’s returns to Wales in adulthood.

Although the author spent a relatively short time of his young life in Wales, his stay during WW2 and his subsequent visits have had a lasting and profound effect on him and his family.  Hiraeth – that nostalgic longing for the distant mountains of Wales will ever be with him.