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Candy Gourlay

Wild Song

 
Hay Festival 2023, 

You’ll be amazed in more ways than one as Candy Gourlay, author of the Costa and Carnegie shortlisted Bone Talk, unfolds this forgotten piece of history. It is 1904 in the mountains of the Philippines and Luki’s had enough of everybody in her tribe telling her what to do. Now she’s growing up, she is expected to become a wife and a mother, but Luki isn’t ready to give up her dream to become a warrior. She accepts a trip across the vast ocean to see the thrills of the Saint Louis World’s Fair in America. But nothing in the land of opportunity is what it seems.

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Byddwch yn rhyfeddu mewn mwy nag un ffordd wrth i Candy Gourlay, awdur y Costa a Carnegie ar restr fer Bone Talk, ddatblygu’r darn hwn o hanes anghofiedig. Mae hi’n 1904 ym mynyddoedd y Philipinau, ac mae Luki wedi cael digon ar bawb yn ei llwyth yn dweud wrthi beth i’w wneud. Nawr ei bod hi’n tyfu i fyny, mae disgwyl iddi ddod yn wraig ac yn fam, ond dydy Luki ddim yn barod i roi’r gorau i’w breuddwyd i fod yn rhyfelwr. Mae hi’n derbyn taith ar draws y cefnfor enfawr i weld gwefr Ffair y Byd Saint Louis yn America. Ond dim byd yn nhir y cyfle yw’r hyn mae'n ymddangos.

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Candy Gourlay