Paul R Price

The Dragon Under the Hill Paul R Price

A poetically written coming of age historical novel, set in rural 1930s West Wales, with a fantasy twist.
Jack is reluctantly sent to spend the summer on his grandparents farm on the hills of West Wales. There he finds a close knit community under threat from an unscrupulous Ministry operative with his own agenda. In this alien environment the only interest for young Jack is the mysterious cairn at the top of the hill, which despite his grandfather's warnings of its many dangers and the threat of a vicious wild dog on the loose, becomes his obsession. The answers he finds there will change the his life and the lives of the characters he meets, forever.
This book is for anybody who experienced the awkwardness and swirling discomfort of adolescence.
For anyone who remembers their first love and those first flutters impossible to name.
For those who love a good character driven story well told.
A love letter to Wales and its people, i's history and heritage and testament to the most vivid of cultures. And...there just might be a dragon in it!