Drift

The hauntingly atmospheric English-language debut from the acclaimed Welsh author: a love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syrian mapmaker, rich with magic, mystery and the wonder of the sea.

About the author

Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Caryl herself – won six Welsh BAFTAS. Her other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. In 2023, she won the Wales Book of the Year Award for the third time for her debut English novel Drift, making her the first writer ever to have won in both languages. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth.

Summary

The hauntingly atmospheric English-language debut from the acclaimed Welsh author: a love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syrian mapmaker, rich with magic, mystery and the wonder of the sea.

Product details

• Authors: Caryl Lewis, Lewis Caryl
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.04.2022
• EAN: 9780857527875
• ISBN: 978-0-85752-787-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Wales, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Sea Stories, Syria, Sea stories, Fiction: general and literary, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Dystopian and utopian fiction