The Writers of Wales Database

MORGAN, GILLIAN

1 Redhill Park, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire SA61 2HA
Email: gill.morg@btinternet.com
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Gillian Morgan lives in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. Following a stint in the civil service based in Fishguard she trained as a teacher, working as head of Hakin Nursery in Haverfordwest for seventeen years before taking early retirement. Gillian has written columns for local newspapers and gained an MA in creative writing. Salt Blue (Honno, 2010) is her first novel. It took her five years to write and is in 'News from Nowhere's Best New Fiction List' of one hundred highly recommended recently published novels.

Gillian has also had poetry published both in Wales and in the USA, and has taken adult Creative Writing classes in Ysgol y Preseli. She is a Member of Academi.

Reviews:
With respect to Salt Blue (Honno, 2010)

"…The author…understands the importance of little sensory details to light up the prose…"
Trish Simpson-Davis

"…a fine read…"
Steve Dube, Western Mail


Selected Publications:
Fishguard in Old Photographs (Christopher Davies, 1986)
Lucy Walter (Berllan Books, 1990)
Salt Blue (Honno, 2010)

Contributed to:
The Point (contributor) (Trinity University College, Carmarthen, 1998)
Changing Times: Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s (contributor) (Honno, 2003)
Changing Times: A Different World - Women's Stories of the 1950s and 1960s (contributor) (Honno, 2010)




Salt Blue (Honno, 2010)

Stella lives on the Welsh coast with her Aunt Oona, but is beginning to get itchy feet, longing to break out of the confines of a home that is haunted by the spectre of her respected grandfather. She finds succour in the sumptuous colours of the knitting wool she is stockpiling in the old man’s disused stockrooms.

Diagnosed as in need of a major life change by a glamorous old school friend newly back from the Continent, and funded by an unexpected windfall, Stella flies off to America in search of her dreams and an exotic new world. On the aeroplane she meets an elderly lady in need of companionship and their friendship opens up an unlooked for chance at a different life. Just when she least expects it, a call comes from home that shakes Stella to her very core.

Salt Blue paints a striking picture of life in a largely forgotten era.

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