White Lane A Fragment of Autobiography

Kate Roberts is widely celebrated in Welsh as the undisputed 'queen of our literature'. This, the first full-length version of her autobiography to appear in English, brings to a non Welsh-speaking audience the intimacy and idiomatic richness of the author's voice mediated by Gillian Clarke's evocative, delicate translation. In the tradition of the Welsh hunangofiant (autobiography), Kate Roberts introduces us to a community, rather than an individual. Taking her reader on a tour of Rhosgadfan, the tiny village in which she grew up at the turn of the last century, she offers us an eloquent depiction of herself as a sensitive young girl who had little notion that she was destined for greatness. This parallel Welsh-English text will be a delight for readers in Wales and beyond.