Tiger Bay Blues - Catrin Collier

It’s 1930, and in Pontypridd, 18-year-old Edyth has turned her parents’ world upside down. Edyth has always been the ‘plain, intelligent’ one of Harry and Sali Evans’s five daughters, until a chance meeting with handsome curate Peter changes everything. Head over heels in love she sacrifices her own ambitions and defies her parents in order to help Peter realise his dream of running his own parish.

Peter is sent to Butetown, the dockland area of Cardiff commonly known as Tiger Bay, a community that brings Edyth into contact with a diverse culture and poverty she has never known.

There, Edyth discovers exactly why her parents were so opposed to Peter – and learns of a dark secret which threatens to destroy her marriage…