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Jasbinder Bilan

Naeli and the Secret Song

Hay Festival 2025, 

Ymunwch ag awdur arobryn Costa ar gyfer y digwyddiad rhyngweithiol a gweledol hwn am ei nofel ddiweddaraf, yr antur hanesyddol gyffrous Naeli and the Secret Song. Mae Naeli yn hiraethu am adnabod ei thad o Loegr, a wnaeth droi ei gefn arni pan oedd hi’n fach. Y cyfan sydd ganddi yw ei enw – a’i feiolin werthfawr. Mae tocyn i Loegr yn cyrraedd yn ddirgel, ac mae Naeli yn cychwyn ar antur a fydd yn mynd â hi o’i hannwyl India i strydoedd Llundain Fictoraidd a thu hwnt, i ddarganfod y gwir y tu ôl i’w hetifeddiaeth gerddorol. Archwiliwch themâu Jasbinder o wladychiaeth a hunaniaeth, gyda phob un wedi’u lapio mewn dirgelwch cerddorol gothig.

Join the Costa Award-winning author for this interactive and visual event about her newest novel, thrilling historical adventure Naeli and the Secret Song. Naeli longs to know her English father, who abandoned her when she was little. All she has is his name – and his precious violin. A ticket to England arrives mysteriously, and Naeli embarks on an adventure that will take her from her beloved India to the streets of Victorian London and beyond, to discover the truth of her musical inheritance. Explore Jasbinder’s themes of colonialism and identity, all wrapped in a gothic musical mystery.

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