Reviews
"The book is highly readable, written with humour and perception - a significant achievement. It has a unique perspective. It deserves to be widely read.
- Dafydd Wigley, Daily Post
"Reading this novel was like looking in a mirror. It made me feel as if I was reading my own autobiography, discovering something of myself in the various characters. In fact it is as if I had lived the novel. This is an epic novel in every sense of the word. In it I rediscovered parts of myself.
- Lyn Ebenezer, Gwales
"A Welsh Dawn is a political novel to be welcomed. It is refreshing to read about the experiences of an English-speaking child in a minority of one, rather than the other way round... The most important question comes in an exchange between the lovers central to Gareth Thomas' story: 'Do you feel you're outgrowing Penygroes?... You used to call it a dump. In fifty years, I've heard this question so many times, but never in English, and never before in the pages of a novel. It's about time.
- Angharad Tomos, Planet magazine
"I see a film in the making.
- Linda Christmas, The Welsh Agenda
"Nid wyf am ei hadolygu tu hwnt i ddweud ei bod yn ein dwyn yn ôl, mewn modd argyhoeddiadol a chredadwy gan mwyaf, i fyd yn cynnwys Vimto, Brylcreem, Austin Cambridge, trywsus bach mawr, Yn ôl i Leifior, Tommy Steele, James Dean, helynt Suez, ôl y bomio yn Lerpwl, y rhesi bysus ar Faes Caernarfon, tai bwyta Harper's a'r People's yn y dref, a'r hen Plaza, Pen-y-groes."
- Blog Glyn Adda