Why a Booktrail?
1800s: Women were not expected to leave a marriage in the 1800s
The Awakening
What you need to know before your trail
Lora Ffennig’s happy family life is shattered when her husband unexpectedly leaves her for another woman. Her life stops and shatters. The world she has taken for granted is suddenly very unfamiliar, and Lora must find a new compass to guide her and her children.
Set in a tight-knit Welsh-speaking community at a time when women just didn’t leave a marriage, and when adultery and divorce were huge social stigmas.
Travel Guide
Rhosgadfan
This small Welsh village in the county of Gwynedd is mostly widely known as the birthplace of Kate Roberts! She studied Welsh at the University of Bangor.
Denbigh
Roberts met Morris T. Williams here where Williams was a printer and they bought the printing and publishing house Gwasg Gee (The Gee Press) and moved to live here in 1935
This is the castle.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Awakening
Author/Guide: Kate Roberts Destination: Wales Departure Time: Early 1900s
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