'Weights and Measures': Jane Fraser in conversation with Alan Bilton
'Weights and Measures': Jane Fraser in conversation with Alan Bilton
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Weights and Measures (WATERMARK PRESS)
Weights and Measures is an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader. It follows an outwardly ordinary family, living in a working-class suburb of Swansea, during the early days of World War II, exploring inner lives of fear, passion, and hope.
Preoccupied with their secrets, they live in almost suspended animation, waiting for an end to the weeks and months of apparent nothing – the so-called ‘phoney war.’ None of them are prepared for the real war when it begins – devastating and senseless, reconfiguring their lives forever. But out of tragedy, there is a speck of hope…
‘Against the epic backdrop of the Second World War, Fraser’s intimate love letter to Swansea bursts with passion, humour, and heart—a sweeping family saga so compelling readers won’t want to put it down.’
Euros Lyn, BAFTA-winning Film and Television Director
About the author...
Jane Fraser lives, works and writes fiction in a house facing the sea in Llangennith in the Gower peninsula. She is the author of the novel, Advent
(HONNO) winner of the Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize (2022), and two collections of short stories: The South Westerlies and Connective Tissue (SALT).
Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of its Short Works series, she is a former Hay Festival Writer at Work, has an MA (distinction) and PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, and is grandmother to Meg, Flo and Alice.
Weights and Measures (WATERMARK PRESS) is her second novel.
Nofel hanesyddol hamddenol yw Weights and Measures sy'n gorffen yr un mor annisgwyl i'r cymeriadau ag y mae i'r darllenydd. Mae'n dilyn teulu cyffredin i bob golwg, sy’n byw mewn maestref dosbarth gweithiol yn Abertawe, yn ystod dyddiau cynnar yr Ail Ryfel Byd, gan archwilio bywydau mewnol o ofn, angerdd a gobaith.
Wedi ymgolli yn eu cyfrinachau, maen nhw braidd yn byw, gan aros am ddiwedd i’r wythnosau a’r misoedd o ddim byd o werth – yr hyn a elwir yn ‘rhyfel ffug’. Does dim un ohonynt wedi paratoi ar gyfer y rhyfel go iawn pan fydd yn dechrau – yn ddinistriol ac yn ddi-synnwyr, gan ailgyflunio eu bywydau am byth. Ond allan o drasiedi, daw llygedyn bach o obaith…
‘Yn erbyn cefndir arwrol yr Ail Ryfel Byd, mae llythyr cariad preifat Fraser i Abertawe yn llawn angerdd, hiwmor a chariad—saga deuluol ysgubol sydd mor gymhellol bydd darllenwyr yn ysu i ddarllen mwy.’
Euros Lyn, enillydd BAFTA a Chyfarwyddwr Ffilm a Theledu
Am y awdur...
Mae Jane Fraser yn byw, yn gweithio ac yn ysgrifennu nofelau ffuglen mewn tŷ sy'n wynebu'r môr yn Llangynydd ym mhenrhyn Gŵyr. Hi yw awdur y nofel, Advent (Honno) enillydd Gwobr Goffa Paul Torday Cymdeithas yr Awduron (2022), a dau gasgliad o straeon byrion: The South Westerlies a Connective Tissue (SALT).
Mae ei ffuglen fer wedi cael ei darlledu ar BBC Radio 4 fel rhan o'r gyfres Short Works, mae hi'n gyn-Awdur wrth ei Gwaith Gŵyl y Gelli , mae ganddi radd MA (rhagoriaeth) a PhD mewn Ysgrifennu Creadigol o Brifysgol Abertawe, ac mae'n nain i Meg, Flo ac Alice.
Weights and Measures (Watermark Press) yw ei hail nofel.
Mewn partneriaeth â Watermark Press
*Noder: Cynhelir y digwyddiad yn Saesneg
Location
Taliesin Create, Singleton Campus, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP