The Heyday in the Blood - Geraint Goodwin
"Goodwin's novel offers both an intimate portrayal of sexual attraction - the time of the youthful 'heyday in the blood' - and a panoramic view of social change reaching a remote rural community and transforming it forever."
Parthian - Library of Wales
Geraint Goodwin was born just outside Newtown in 1903. He started writing at an early age, his first success being at a local eisteddfod. As a young man he made his living as a journalist and moved to London.
He was diagnosed with a tubercular condition in 1929 and, after treatment at a sanatorium, travelled abroad to convalesce. He used his travel experience in his fiction, but set this novel on the Welsh-English borders.
Geraint Goodwin wrote several books, though seriously struggling with ill-health. In 1941, he discharged himself from a sanatorium in order to return to his wife and young family now living in Montgomery. He died shortly afterwards. His untimely death brought to an end a brilliant literary career which had barely had time to begin.
