Don’t Cry For Me Aberystwyth
I am not really much of a fan of book reviews but this one caught my eye from the Daily Telegraph over a week ago. Don’t Cry For Me Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce interested me because of where this book is set. Some novelists set their books in urban, threatening New York, some people select cosmopolitan London, others use locations like Paris, Venice, LA or India.
Aberystwyth is a remote coastal town in Wales. There’s a university, lots of surrounding sheep farms, some tourists from Birmingham in the summer and not much else. It’s a tough place to get to from Britain’s big cities and I know it has a rapidly worsening drug scene. I visited Aberystwyth countless times during my childhood and it strikes me that this town is a far more interesting place to set a book than another one in Paris, London or New York.
Another book on my must-read list.
