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Article: FROM WALES; BOOKS.(Features)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2008
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Byline: Edited by Steve Dube
The Geometry of Love
Jane Blank (Y Lolfa, pounds 7.95)
THIS first novel by the published poet speaks of love across cultures.
Blank knows something about culture clashes too. Born and bred in England to Welsh parents, she was regarded as Welsh by the English and English by her Welsh relatives.
Denied the language by "experts" who advised her mother not to speak Welsh, she moved back to her family roots in Wales as an adult, learnt Welsh and now teaches ataWelsh-language secondary school.
Her ...