Description
Wales is a nation of contradictions. It boasts incredible natural resources and crushing poverty; fierce patriotism and a stark north/south divide; an energy surplus, and some of the highest bills in the UK. It also has a famously rugby-mad culture – but its football team are lighting up international tournaments. So what’s going on? And how might Wales look in decades to come? Rhys Thomas hails from Laugharne – the village on which, it is rumoured, Dylan Thomas based Under Milk Wood’s ‘Llareggub’ (read it backwards). In this affectionate investigation into his home country – via Welsh geography, food, culture and sport – he aims for the heart of its contrasts. In doing so, Thomas builds a mosaic-like image of how Wales looks today – and how it might look in the future.
