A Sense Of Place.
Modern Writers, Iris Gower
Iris Gower (b. 1939) The meticulously researched books of popular novelist, Iris Gower, have won her a worldwide readership. Her historical romances all take as their setting the city of Swansea and the Gower (from which she adopted her 'nom de plume'), which provide her with a source of seemingly inexhaustible inspiration. The author still lives and writes in Mumbles where she was born. Iris Gower’s novels, the majority of which feature complex and spirited female leading characters, range widely and deal with subjects such as the copper-mining industry, in Copper Kingdom (1984) and the Swansea potteries, in the Firebird series. The recent The Rowan Tree (2003), set in 1831, tells of the cattle drovers who used to drive their animals from West Wales to London's Smithfield Market on foot.