Dear Ceridwen by Jan Fortune

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In North Wales Bethan writes a letter to her missing daughter, Ceridwen. What is the truth about Stephen and the abuse that took place at the Soulful Living Community in Bristol? Most importantly, is Ceridwen alive and what has become of her?

As Bethan reconstructs the past, her voice competes with the voice of Stephen’s wife, Caro. Both women reveal more than they realise in this story of domestic lives posing universal questions.

Dear Ceridwen is about truth and lies, tricks of memory, betrayal, trust, and above all: hope.

Jan Fortune is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press and also teaches creative writing. Her books include novels, A Good Life, Coming Home, The Standing Ground and and poetry, Particles of Life and Stale Bread and Miracles, a prose poetry collection which she recently performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. She is currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through the landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ Schrödinger, and a novel that ranges across three generations and two continents exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, I’m Still Here.