The Rituals
By Rebecca Roberts
Genre:-Contemporary Literary Fiction
Pages:-256
Publisher:-Honno-Welsh Women's Press
Blurb:-A heartfelt novel exploring how we find the light when we are at our darkest place.
Gwawr is a celebrant who conducts non-religious naming ceremonies, weddings and funerals. She's good at her job and proud of her reputation. However, someone is working behind the scenes, a saboteur trying to destroy her career. Only by revisiting the most difficult period of her life can Gwawr discover who is out to get her.
Help comes from unexpected sources and with the support of her clients, friends and family, Gwawr learns important lessons about the nature of love, loss, and the importance of trusting others.
- The Ritals is an author translated version of Y Defodau, Rebecca Roberts' exceptionally well received debut Welsh language adult fiction title.
- Rebecca Roberts won the Book of the Year and Tit na n-Òg 2021 awards for her fiction for young adults.
- The novel explores topical themes of mental health, atheism and grief, inviting the question: where do we put our grief when we do not believe in God? Roberts is unafraid to explore taboo subjects such as babyloss.
- A book that reaches right to the core, full of strong female characters that invite you in as though you were an old friend.
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My Review:The Rituals follows Gwawr a humanist celebrants that shares stories of grief, faith, hope, joy and sadness through her job. But not everything is going right in her own life at the minute, someone is out to get her but who? Gwawr must go back to times in her own life to try and find out why someone is trying to ruin her reputation and her job. With the help from friends, her clients and an unexpected source Gwawr starts to learn who she can trust and overcome things in her past. I found it a fast enjoyable read.
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