A review by maplessence
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

5.0

I read this over at https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/dylan-thomas/a-child-s-christmas-in-wales/ and also treated myself to a listen over on You Tube of Thomas reading this himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HoxycLmMOk I normally hate being read to but it is impossible to hate this beautifully vibrating voice breathing even more life into this work.

I've never read nostalgia so well realised & I loved the gentle humour.

Here is a quote dear to a Goodreader's heart.

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?”

Wishing all my Goodreads friends A Very Merry Christmas and a Literary 2018!