![]() ![]() The novel is set in Butetown – an area near the docklands area of Cardiff known colloquially as "Tiger Bay". Frankie also befriends Salvatore Capanone, with whom he opens a café on Bute Street. Upon his arrival in Tiger Bay, Frankie meets Joe Medora, a small-time criminal working his way into a position of power within the world of organised crime. Dol, Marina, Celesta, Fran, Rose and Luca are the daughters of Mary, who has moved to Cardiff from a small village in the Cynon Valley, and Frankie, a Maltese immigrant who has arrived to build a life for himself in Cardiff. The Hiding Place is narrated from the first-person perspective of Dolores Gauci, the youngest of six sisters. Her return to the locations of her childhood evokes vivid, traumatic memories and perspectives on her upbringing in the 1960s. It is the late 1990s and Dolores has returned to Cardiff to attend the funeral of her mother and reconnect with her sisters. ![]() ![]() The story is told through the first-person narrative voice of Dolores, the youngest of six daughters of Frankie Gauci, a Maltese immigrant, and his wife Mary. It tells the story of the Gaucis, a half-Maltese, half-Welsh family living in Butetown – "Tiger Bay" – in Cardiff. The Hiding Place (2000) was Trezza Azzopardi's first published novel. ![]()
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