Jolie Fleming’s Reviews > The Welsh Girl > Status Update

Karsten first treated as hero; interviews by Rotherham; considered traitor when tells POW that war is lost.
Esther tells Mrs. Roberts it’s Rhys’s baby. Welsh courtship for couples who couldn’t afford to marry sharing a bed. Given Mrs R’s ring.
Cynefin: sense of place, passed from mother’s and daughters.
“Fear will make you believe anything.” (Hess)
K, seeing Holocaust film,: “and I was ashamed of surrender.”

With Mary, E goes to Liverpool to abort baby. Doctor overwhelmed by war casualties and no longer performs. First train ride; wears Mary’s clothes-a disguise
E learns that M&Harry together and H is a Jew.
Caernevon Castle built for English to put down rebellion. Wales the first colony
Interrogated fo K seen at the Pub. There to interrogate K.
Tells A about pregnancy. Names Rhys as father. Jim overhears.

K: escape as complicated as surrender. Tries to float to Ireland. Boat sinks. Ends up sleeping in a bunker, returns to farm.
Cynefin- sheep know their home - passed from ewe to daughter.
E tells of dishonor; K tells her to keep it
K surrenders to Jim
E: was all her recklessness a desire to be caught red-handed; now a hero.

K speaks with E after boys teach POWs foul language. Makes toys for Jim who reacts negatively when announcement comes that Rhys is MIA presumed dead.; village now part of war. Asks is K a coward “Cowards don’t get taken prisoner, just run away.”
E is pregnant and now feels “she might really have been raped.
Description of how to ‘now ewes were mounted - red riddle on rams’ bellies and legs,
Arthur in mine w/art

3 major characters: Rotheram, Esther, Karsten in Snowdonia, Wales. Rotheram assigned to interview Hess.
Karsten voluntarily surrenders on D-day and taken to POW camp. Esther raped by English sapper building camp. Welsh resent that English put Germans there.
Strong secondary characters -- Arthur, Jim, Jack, Mary & Harry.
Karsten's letters to mom: who's protecting whom as each "idealize" their situation.