The island of apples

First published in 1965, The Island of Apples is a brilliant account of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthrallment, set vividly in industrial south Wales and rural Carmarthenshire in the early twentieth century. In the novel, the life of Dewi Davies is suddenly altered by the appearance of a stranger in his valley town, a youth from a seemingly glamorous background who possesses all that Dewi finds lacking in his own restricted existence.