
The Coward's Tale
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'And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that's worse.'
The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a small Welsh mining community, where he begins an unlikely friendship with Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the town beggar-storyteller.
Ianto is watchman over the legacy of the collapse many years ago of Kindly Light Pit, a disaster whose echoes reverberate down the generations of the town. Through Ianto's stories Laddy is drawn into both the town's history and the conundrums of the present.
Why has woodwork teacher Icarus Evans striven most of his life to carve wooden feathers that will float on an updraft? Why is the undertaker Tutt Bevan trying to find a straight path through the town? Why does James Little, the old gas-meter emptier, dig his allotment by moonlight? And why does window cleaner Judah Jones take autumn leaves into a disused chapel?
These and other men of the town, and the women who mothered them, married them and mourned them, are bound together by the echoes of the Kindly Light tragedy and by the mysterious figure of Ianto Jenkins, whose stories of loyalty and betrayal, loss and love, form an unforgettable, spellbinding tapestry.
The Coward's Tale is a powerfully imagined, poetic and haunting novel, spiked with humour. It is a story of kinship and kindness, guilt and atonement, and the ways in which we carve the present out of an unforgiving past.
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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- By the Town Statue, Outside the Public Library
- The Woodwork Teacher's Tale i
- The Woodwork Teacher's Tale ii
- In the Porch of Ebenezer Chapel
- The Halfwit's Tale and the Deputy Bank Manager's Tale i
- The Halfwit's Tale and the Deputy Bank Manager's Tale ii
- The Halfwit's Tale and the Deputy Bank Manager's Tale iii
- By the Old Sheds at the End of Maerdy Street
- The Baker's Tale i
- The Baker's Tale ii
- The Baker's Tale iii
- In the Porch of Ebenezer Chapel
- The Deputy Librarian's Tale and the Undertaker's Tale i
- The Deputy Librarian's Tale and the Undertaker's Tale ii
- The Deputy Librarian's Tale and the Undertaker's Tale iii
- The Deputy Librarian's Tale and the Undertaker's Tale iv
- In the Park, on the Bench Dedicated to Miss Gwynneth Watkins
- The Piano Tuner's Tale i
- The Piano Tuner's Tale ii
- The Piano Tuner's Tale iii
- On the Old Footbridge over the Taff
- The Window Cleaner's Tale i
- The Window Cleaner's Tale ii
- The Window Cleaner's Tale iii
- In the Park, on the Bench Dedicated to Miss Gwynneth Watkins
- The Clerk's Tale i
- The Clerk's Tale ii
- The Clerk's Tale iii
- In the Porch of Ebenezer Chapel
- The Gas Meter Emptier's Tale i
- The Gas Meter Emptier's Tale ii
- The Gas Meter Emptier's Tale iii
- By the Cemetery on the Hill they Call Black Mountain
- The Collier's Tale i
- The Collier's Tale ii
- The Collier's Tale iii
- At Ebenezer Chapel
- At the Top of the Last Hill
- The Kindly Light Generations
- Other Dramatis Personae
- Author's Note
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright Page
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