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.