The fiction that is New House... begins as the hut of a poor Christian man in what becomes Pembrokeshire, a man who would later be made saint, during some of the earliest days of the Christian church in Wales.  In the 6th century it becomes a monastery; in the 16th century it becomes a privately held mansion of the Prices of Hendy.  In the early 20th century it is rubble.  And shortly before the dawn of the 21st century, it is the bubbling well from which the fiction sprang.   

   The history of New House, fascinating reading in the book of that title, is rivaled by the stories of some of its people, both inhabitants and visitors.
   You will never forget the murder of Old Helen of Edinburgh nor the treachery of her daughter-in-law.
   Nor will you forget the fable of Prince Mahomet, as written by Dame Cecilia Price of the Prices of Hendy who had come into ownership of the New House mansion in the 16th century.  She had written a story with a Middle East flavor as Arabian Nights caught European imaginations in the early 18th century. 
   And you will not forget the story of the 17th-century ghost of Hendy, Isobel Darvish, a young woman thwarted in her love for William Price.

   These stories and more, told in a variety of voices and accompanied by song, are backed by Welsh folk songs played by Welsh-American musicians.  The stories are both charming and exciting.  Some have the character of myth, some of fable, some of folklore.  But all evidence their Welsh heritage and weave their own magic into the fabric of Welsh literatue.
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