<p><b>Dylan Thomas's vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one's own artistic voice</b><br /><br />A boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of mischief and self-discovery. Along the way, a sensibility begins to take shape - playful, observant and alive to the strangeness of the everyday.<br /><br /><b>BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days</b></p>