Sex and the single Welsh girl...


It’s a fact that more and more young people are staying single for longer these days – whether by choice or just because that’s just the way things have turned out. And whilst Bridget Jones has gone all Hollywood on us and shrunk to a size zero, back in Wales a fun, feisty lady is ready to step into her stilletos in the form of Tina Thomas, the protagonist in Hogan Horni (Horny Girl), a new novel by Gomer which is published this month.
Tina is a confident, sexy journal trying her best to enjoy life – with or without the perfect man. She shares a flat with her friends Ann and Gwenan and is trying to juggle four men at the same time – Bryn y Boncyn, a harmless farmer who’s mad about her, Antonio the hunk who likes to ‘rendez-vous’ once in a while, Jeff Parry her boss at the Borth Journal, and Dr Richard Jones ‘her perfect Adonis’, who just happens to be married. In between all the loving, lager and laughter Tina gets hold of a major scoop which may well change her life forever.
This is Menna Medi’s debut novel. Originally from Llanuwchllyn near Bala, she now lives in Y Groeslon near Caernarfon. And although the novel came about as a result of Menna winning a competition at the National Eisteddfod in 2001, she hopes it will be a novel that everyone can enjoy.
Menna said, “I haven’t written it to please any critics or academics. I’ve written it for the people who pass me on the street in Caernarfon and ask me when my sexy lady’s going to be hitting the bookshops, and where the bookshop is so they can get a copy! Yes, there’s a bit of sex and a bit of swearing in the book – that’s everyday life for most people, but I’ve also tried to bring up more serious subjects such as the difficult life farmers have, religion, illness and death. If the book means that more people give reading in Welsh a go, then I really don’t care about offending the posh people!”