Siân James

Siân James, author of One Afternoon

Siân James (née Davis) was born in 1930 in Coed-y-bryn, Ceredigion. She wrote that she was 'Welsh-speaking, hymn-singing and came from a family of writers. Her uncle was an archdruid of Wales. She graduated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she met her husband, actor Emrys James. She was a teacher for several years before having three sons in fairly rapid succession. After a further period of four years, largely spent having driving lessons, she had another baby, a girl. She has a Siamese cat, an English magpie and a bike.' The James family lived in a 17th-century thatched house near Stratford-on-Avon and it was at the Royal Shakespeare Company that Emrys established himself as one of the leading actors of his generation. In 1975 Siân published One Afternoon, which won the Yorkshire Post Book Award for a ﬁrst book. Her third novel, A Small Country (1979), is considered an important contribution to Anglo-Welsh literature. Over the next thirty years she published ten more novels, two collections of short stories and a memoir. After Emrys died in 1989 she continued to write, and for a while lived in Cardiff, teaching creative writing at the University of Glamorgan; later she returned to Worcestershire to live near her family. She died in 2021.

Titles by Siân James

One Afternoon

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