Dream on

Part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living, this fictional debut experiments with genre boundaries and paints detailed portraits of its characters. There is Digger Davies and his untimely death; the award-winning photographer whose return home will become a quest for his own forgotten identity and compromised life; the thwarted politician in a hospital bed writing his own obituary; and a beautiful girl caught in time, alive in an old man’s memory.

Dai Smith is a professor of the cultural history of Wales at Swansea University and is the series editor of the Library of Wales series. He is currently chair of the Arts Council of Wales, and is the author of Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales, In the Frame: Memory in Society 1910 to 2010, Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale and a Question for History, and editor of Story: The Library of Wales Short Story Anthology.