Lleifior

Lleifior is the name of a fictional farm in two Welsh language novels by Islwyn Ffowc Elis.

The novels are both set in the 1950s: Cysgod y Cryman ("Shadow of the Sickle") and Yn ôl i Leifior ("Back to Lleifior").

Cysgod y Cryman, first published in 1953, follows the

It was also one of the first Welsh-language books to be recorded as an audio book for the blind. This was done by the North Wales Society of the Blind in the early 1960s.^[2]

Both books have been best-sellers in Wales and have been translated into English.

Cysgod y Cryman was brought to the stage and television screen. A stage production by Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2007 was considered a critical and public success. It played to full theatres in Wales and on 5 April 2007 in the Bloomsbury Theatre in London, produced by Sion Eirian and starring Owen Garmon.

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