Rhondda Romance

<p><em>A Rhondda Romance</em> is a coming-of-age saga celebrating a circle of teenage friends who love each other to bits... and are desperate for ways to put themselves back together again. In the terraced streets and <em>gwlis</em> the cafés and clubs of their once-mighty coal metropolis they catch a glimpse of something humanity has always been searching for something beyond themselves that they can live by. </p><p>Richly comic and keenly intelligent heartfelt and ironic fizzing with wit and allusion John Geraint's seriously playful approach to the past succeeds in questioning - and arguing with - all our assumptions about the place and the period it conjures up. </p>