Margaret launches new book

Pembrokeshire author Margaret Redfern is one of a growing band of talented writers who owe a debt of gratitude to the MA creative writing course at Trinity University College, Carmarthen.
Ms Redfern is marking her mark with a new historical novel called Flint, which has been published to rave reviews.
The 59-year-old basic skills tutor at Pembrokeshire College, Haverfordwest, is delighted with the feedback to Flint.
“It has been very well received and it is always encouraging to receive good reviews for a work you care about a great deal.”
Ms Redfern singled out Nigel Jenkins, a former creative writing tutor at Trinity, for special praise.
“He was a great influence and a great help and I owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

Ms Redfern grew up in Gilberdyke, in the former East Riding of Yorkshire, and Snaith, in the former West Riding.
After gaining a degree in English Literature and Linguistics at Lancaster, Margaret qualified as a teacher.
Her first teaching post was at Ayas Koleji, Adana, Turkey. She travelled extensively through Turkey before returning to England where she worked as a driver, as a barmaid, on the land then as a secondary teacher in rural and urban schools until 2000, when she came to West Wales.
Ms Redfern’s career as a freelance writer began in the 1980s when she was published by IPC magazines, Bauer Publications, Robert Hale and Lythway.
In 2006, Ms Redfern gained a MA in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen.
She contributed to the MA Anthology, Wicked Words, Roundyhouse (2006) and Planet (2006).
Ms Redfern is regularly published in Pembrokeshire Life magazine, writing on Richard Fenton and his Tour through Pembrokeshire (pub. 1810).
Flint is published by Honno and the dust-jacket tells us -
Will and his brother Ned are on the long march from the Fens to North Wales, commandeered into the army of ditch-diggers heading west towards Flint, where they will be preparing the ground for the foundations of Edward 1's new castle.
They are nervous and rightly so – for not only is Ned a mute, whose abilities as a horse-whisperer and herbalist make him suspicious in the eyes of their English overseers, but they have been close to the enemy. Ned had been secretly taking lessons in music from Ieuan ap y Gof, an exiled bard, when the Welshman disappeared one night without warning not long before Edward's officers came 'recruiting'.
The boys find themselves a long way from home, virtually friendless and then captured by the 'enemy', suspected of treason and near killed before they are able to escape. Finally, when all appears lost, Will learns that love is sometimes harder to understand and to come to terms with than death itself . . .
Reviews for Flint include the following from Steve Dube of the Western Mail - "fiction stamped with authenticity on every page, an original novel from a mature and imaginative writer."