A Small Country

A Small Country is an English-language novel by Siân James, first published by Collins in 1979.

It is James's third novel, and has come to be regarded as a significant publication in Anglo-Welsh literature.

[1][2] It includes themes of Welsh identity and women's experience in the pre-First World War period.

The son, Tom, and daughter, Catrin, are both restless in their rural existence and their father, Josi, abandons his wife and the farm to live with a local schoolteacher.

A new edition, with an introduction by Stan Barstow, was published by Seren Books in 1999.