«  a master-craftsman of welsh fiction, rhys davies combined pin-point observation of valleys life with a twinkling sense of comedy. his long-term friend anna kavan wrote dark and troubled novels described by j. g. ballard as “somewhere between poetry and madness”. each lived a life of self-invention, in which secrets, sexuality and deep questions of personal identity lurked constantly in the shadows. d. j. britton’s high-energy play is set in the late 1960s when davies’ late literary recognition and kavan’s final tragedy came together like a thunderclap. »