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The Welsh Words We Kept

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One family knows two languages and at least five ways to say they are sorry without having to say it.

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The Welsh Words We Kept, a women's fiction family saga concept package. The graphic shows 5 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Song on Mam's Apron.

The concept

The women in a south Wales valley family inherit a song nobody quite remembers the same way. Across five generations, a shortened name, a sister’s silence and a kitchen cassette set off arguments about who gets to speak for home.

1934. A new teacher calls Nansi by a name that is easier for him. Her childhood friend copies it in the programme for their school concert. The free companion novella is The Song on Mam's Apron.

The worldIn an invented valley town, Gwenllian keeps a song tucked into the pocket of her work apron. Her daughter Nansi and granddaughters Elin and Beth use English and Welsh differently at school, chapel and the kitchen table. The family can travel away and come back. Fluency never stands in for love.

Series tropesSmall Town • Opposites Life Goals • Underdog

Intended readershipA family saga for readers who know what it feels like to understand the adults at the table and still be unable to answer. Language, belonging and sisterhood matter across a full century.

Tone & contentLyrical family fiction rooted in ordinary conversations. Five generational conflicts have satisfying personal resolutions.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaGwenllian James and her older sister Catrin

Book 1Nansi James and her mother Gwenllian

Book 2Elin James and her sister Beth

Book 3Sian James and her grandmother Nansi

Book 4Lowri James and her mother Sian

Book 5Cerys James and her great-great-aunt Beth

Series arc

An apron folded in 1919 goes to Nansi, then to Elin and her sister Beth, then to Elin’s daughter Sian and her daughter Lowri. The closing encounter belongs to Lowri and her own daughter Cerys, who can finally tell an old family story and hear the punch line in either language.

The five books

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Free novella

The Song on Mam's Apron

1919. Gwenllian finds four lines of her late mother’s song tucked into an apron. Catrin insists they have the tune all wrong.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe sisters discover their mother sang the slow version to one child and a cheeky quick version to the other. When a cousin asks for the proper tune at a family supper, they sing both and stitch a tiny pair of notes into the apron hem. Gwenllian folds the paper back into its pocket.

Emotional payoffRemembering their mother becomes something the sisters can do together without surrendering their private memories.

Story focusGrief to Hope

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of five

A Name the Teacher Shortened

1934. A new teacher calls Nansi by a name that is easier for him. Her childhood friend copies it in the programme for their school concert.

Story outline

Story arc and endingNansi has been answering happily to both names until she hears her mother blamed for choosing the difficult one. Rather than refuse to sing, she persuades her friend to print her chosen name and introduces the next song herself. At home she asks Gwenllian to tell the story of naming her, with permission to interrupt for the funny parts.

Emotional payoffNansi’s first public act of self-definition makes room for her own playfulness as well as her mother’s pride.

Story focusChildhood Friends

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of five

The Sister Who Answered in English

1959. Beth returns after training in England and answers her sister in English outside chapel. Elin thinks she is being laughed at.

Story outline

Story arc and endingBeth has been caring for frightened patients in English for years and slips back into the language at moments of distress. She came home to tell Elin she lost a close friend. Elin learns this after turning their walk home into a public quarrel. She goes to Beth’s room with tea, apologizes in the language Beth is using and listens to the whole story. Their next walk is their own affair.

Emotional payoffElin stops counting what her sister owes the town and begins hearing what she needs from family.

Story focusFish Out of Water

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of five

The Tape Mam Played at Supper

1983. Single mother Sian hears her own childhood voice on the cassette Nansi has been playing for visitors at supper.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe little girl on the tape mangles a word and everyone laughs. Nansi remembers a beloved joke; Sian remembers the day she stopped speaking Welsh in company. Sian asks to keep the original private and records herself teaching her baby the song in her own tempo. Nansi invites the next visitor to sing something of their own instead.

Emotional payoffSian lets her daughter hear an imperfect, living language because her grandmother finally listens to a grown woman’s objection.

Story focusSingle Parent

Length55,000 words planned

Book 4 of five

Her Daughter's First Welsh Winter

2008. After a divorce Lowri brings seven-year-old Cerys to stay for a Welsh winter. Her daughter learns the local phrases faster than she does.

Story outline

Story arc and endingEmbarrassed by a school invitation she cannot read smoothly, Lowri volunteers Cerys to sing a song she has never heard. Cerys wants to play percussion. Lowri admits her mistake to the other parents, joins a local conversation group and accompanies Cerys to rehearsal, where the girl sets a rhythm for both old versions of the tune.

Emotional payoffLowri lets her daughter enjoy belonging without asking a child to prove her mother belongs too.

Story focusRebuilding Life After Divorce

Length55,000 words planned

Book 5 of five

Tell It Again in Both Our Voices

2026. Cerys wants to record a family story before Beth’s voice grows too weak. The English version has a punch line the Welsh version seems to be missing.

Story outline

Story arc and endingBeth explains that each sister used to supply half the joke and pause for the other. Cerys brings the ageing Elin to her sister’s kitchen, rehearses the timing with them and stops the recorder when the women ask for privacy. Weeks later she and her mother tell it at supper, with enough space for everybody to laugh in the language they reach for first.

Emotional payoffCerys gives up trying to keep a perfect last recording and gains a story the living can carry together.

Story focusGrief to Hope

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

The novella puts the song in Gwenllian’s pocket. Every novel gives a different pair of women the chance to hear an old story differently.

In the concept package

Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 305,000 words.

Included free

Buy the 5-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Song on Mam's Apron, is planned at 30,000 words.

Included in the pack

Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 6 coordinated front-cover concepts.