My Mother’s House

Simon is a troubled young man… born in Wales, of Jewish heritage, and in love with Englishness and an English heiress. He determines to reject his Jewish and Welsh identity and the industrial valleys he grew up in and seeks to fulfil his ambition to rise in the Civil Service. Ultimately, he must embrace his family and his heritage before he can experience a sense of wholeness. Simon’s experience raises questions of belonging, language, nationhood and identity. Lily Tobias’s sensitive individual and communal portraits illuminate some of the most topical personal, social and political issues of the twenty-first century.