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DEWITHON 22: Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams

A brief introduction and a few shared thoughts on my book choice for Reading Wales 2022 “…the African thing hung about me like a Welsh Not, a heavy encumbrance on my soul; a Not-identity; an awkward reminder of what I was or what I wasn’t.” Published by Planet Books in 2002, Charlotte Williams’s Wales Book of the Year-winning autobiographical ‘novel’ has long been lauded by readers and critics…