Secret Sins

Sex, Violence and Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920

By (author) David Russell Davies

Publication date:

30 November 2012

Length of book:

327 pages

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-13: 9780708325568

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.