Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.
ISBN: | 9780708325568 |
Publication date: | 30th November 2012 |
Author: | Russell Davies |
Publisher: | University of Wales Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 327 pages |
Genres: |
Rural communities Social and cultural anthropology European history |