Secret Sins
Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Author(s) Russell Davies
Language: English
Genre(s): Welsh Interest, History
- November 2012 · 327 pages ·216x138mm
- · Paperback - 9780708325568
- · eBook - pdf - 9780708325575
- · eBook - epub - 9781783165452
About The Book
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, Secret Sins. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing.