The Reluctant Redhead

Eluned Phillips

An autobiography of the colourful character and first-ever female double winner of the National Eisteddfod crown in both 1967 and 1983. She relates the story of her unusual upbringing in west Wales, and her periods in London, Paris and the USA. Includes anectodes about the prominent people she met in her life; Edith Piaf, Dylan Thomas, Pablo Picasso etc. Black-and-white photographs.

ISBN: 9781843238669

Price: £7.99

Department: Biographical, Autobiography, Poetry, Art

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 224

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Eluned Phillips writes in an engaging, often almost conversational, style. "Life has been a lot of fun," she concludes, to which one can only add that her book is fun to read. - Dewi Roberts, Gwales

PABLO Picasso, Edith Piaf, Dylan Thomas, Augustus John, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier, are all names we know. But to Eluned Phillips, the poet and author from Cenarth in West Wales, they were acquaintances, people she met during her artistic encounters and adventures among the Bohemian artistic circles of London and Paris. Here is her extraordinary autobiography, a medley of fascinating memories from what the author herself, describes as a topsy-turvy life. - The Western Mail

Blurb

Pablo Picasso. Edith Piaf. Dylan Thomas. Augustus John. Names to conjure with. But names, all the same.

To Eluned Phillips, however, they were friends. The flesh and blood of artistic encounters and adventures. The heady boasts of the Bohemian lifestyle led by the red-headed young poet from Cenarth in west Wales, who would in later years endear herself to audiences over the world. She would even win over the Welsh literary establishment itself, as she became - and remains - the only woman to win the Crown at the National Eisteddfod twice.

The Reluctant Redhead is not her formal autobiography, but rather a medley of memories from what the author herself, in her ninety-third year, describes as 'a topsy-turvy life.'