<i>Morlais</i> is Alun Lewis''s lost novel from the 1930s, a Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty-stricken industrial valleys of south Wales. Lewis (1915-1944) was the outstanding writer of World War Two and <i>Morlais</i>, written in his mid-twenties, is an early indication of the talented writer he would become just five years later.