June Knox-Mawer was a writer and broadcaster.

She was a presenter on Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and wrote and presented a number of documentary programmes. She was selected by the TImes as the Best Woman's Voice on Radio.

Her novel, SANDSTORM, won the Romantic Novel of the Year award in 1992. Her travel writing was also very well received, including THE SULTANS CAME TO TEA, A GIFT OF ISLANDS and A SOUTH SEA SPELL.

She died on 19th April 2006.

'Access is difficult but the views are panoramic' claimed the brochure, and so it was. Living in God's Pocket was the Welsh expression for Hafod's idyllic seclusion halfway up the Denbighshire mountainside.

It was here amid fields with ancient names like 'Place of the She-Bear' or 'Graves of the Warriors' and near the ruins of Vale Crucis Abbey and the castle of Dinas Bran, that June Knox-Mawer set about replanting her roots. While facing unexpected hazards; a ram in the well, a swarm of bees in the bedroom chimney, and an owl delivered by the postman; she knew that friendships were to become the key.

Here is a vivid picture of a way of life fast disappearing, even in a country that cherishes the past as dearly as Wales