Port Talbot, the novel: Jon Doyle’s ‘Communion’ – gwallter

Port Talbot, the novel: Jon Doyle’s ‘Communion’ – gwallter

Port Talbot has waited a long time for the novel it deserves.  Now it has one: Communion, the first long work of fiction by Jon Doyle, who was brought up in the town, and still lives there. If you know Port Talbot you’ll soon recognise many of the places that feature in the book – the central streets and districts like Sandfields and Margam, the bare hills above, St Joseph’s School, the Plaza cinema.  Above all, the once mighty steelworks, the l…