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The paperback edition of the highly acclaimed memoir in which the American travel writer, Pamela Petro, writes a love letter to Wales and explores the meaning of 'hiraeth', a famously hard to translate word which approximates to a deep longing for an irretrievable place, person or time. The Long Field takes the original hiraeth stories of Wales and weaves them into Petro's own life: as an American who loves Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a train crash, as the daughter of a parent with dementia. In The Long Field Petro concludes that hiraeth as a response to loss is the wellspring of creativity.

Pamela Petro is the author of three previous non-fiction travel books. She is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Wales. Her bestselling book, Travels in an Old Tongue recounted Petro's efforts to learn Welsh on a fifteen-country world tour.