How did people survive in the lonely cottages on the Welsh hilltops? Lilla Pennant sets out to uncover and retell the true stories of the people of a village and a strange hill-slope community in the Clwydian hills. Life was tough, but for some it was also a wild adventure.

• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• 1 – On the mountain
• 2 – Lizzie
• 3 – In pursuit of a wife
• 4 – With a Voice like God
• 5 – Catching hold of the axle
• 6 – Tom and Jo ‘y go’’
• 7 – Savage Williams
• 8 – Building the hall
• 9 – The people of Sodom
• 10 – The declamations of Margaret Edwards
• 11 – A bit of a witch
• 12 – Herb beer
• 13 – On a dark night with enough wind…
• 14 – An absent-minded man
• 15 – How it all ended
• 16 – Older tunes
• Postscript
• Brief biographies