The Journey is Home : Notes from a Life on the Edge

In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes ofa life lived on the edge.It is story of journeys and realisation,of acceptance and joy.From a boyhood on the coast of Walesto a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarshipat Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to takehold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales to workin community engagement and sexual health.A journey ofbecoming a writer and chronicler of his experiences withaward-winning books and the desire to become a campaignerfor LGBT rights in Wales.The adventure of running a guesthouse in Barmouth where he eventually became Mayorwith his husband, a German academic, who he had marriedafter a long partnership.Three weeks after the EuropeanReferendum they put the business on the market and movedto Germany.John is still on that journey.