One Afternoon

The preface to One Afternoon is by Emma Schofield, the editor of the Welsh Arts Review. She writes ‘One Afternoon may be a love story, but it is also a story of love that has all the odds stacked against it, of a relationship which is complex and bound up in the rapidly changing social landscape of the time… There is an energy and rawness to the writing here which is remarkable both in its honesty and within its social context… Thus the reality of social and political issues is everywhere in [James's] fiction.’ Emma Schofield concludes by commending the ‘bravery of the author in writing the book and the skill with which she is able to write so subtly, yet so politically.'