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'Corpse-candles, phantom
funerals. The knocking, the moaning, the bird of death. It was
insidious...'
For Bethan, the schoolteacher, the old superstitions woven into the
social fabric of her West Wales village are primitive and distasteful.
Which is why she's pleased to welcome the sophisticated newcomers:
London journalist Giles Freeman and his wife Claire. Surely they'll let
in some fresh air?
But the Freemans are keen to absorb this different culture, a while new
way of life – rejecting the advice of an old colleague who warns them
of a hard and bitter land where they've always danced on the edge of the
abyss. 'We're really not meant to be there, you know, the English...'
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