The Journey is Home : Notes from a Life on the Edge

Published 01/01/2001 | Paperback / softback,
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In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes ofa life lived on the edge. It is story of journeys and realisation,of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Walesto a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarshipat Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to takehold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to workin community engagement and sexual health. A journey ofbecoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences withaward-winning books and the desire to become a campaignerfor LGBT rights in Wales. The adventure of running a guesthouse in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayorwith his husband, a German academic, who he had marriedafter a long partnership. Three weeks after the EuropeanReferendum they put the business on the market and movedto Germany. John is still on that journey.