Up, Into The Singing Mountainis a 1960 novel by Richard Llewellyn, and a sequel to his 1939 novel,How Green Was My Valley.[1]The novel tells the story of Huw Morgan's emigration to Patagonia.Leaving South Wales, Huw travels to Liverpool where he boards the shipGeraintand travels to the Welsh-speaking colony of Patagonia.[2]Settling in the City of Lewis, Huw sets up a workshop, funded byhis landlady, Widow Gwyn, and has success making furniture and fittingsfor houses. Huw meets the Corwen family, a widowed man with threedaughters, the eldest of whom, Lal, Huw falls in love with.[3]She is hesitant to marry him and her violent father, Vrann, has plansto marry her off to other farmers to get their land. As time passes, Huwencounters similar prejudices as those found at home from thereligious elders of the city, known as 'The Twelve'.Despite being in love with Lal, he begins a sexual relationshipwith Gwyn. Lal becomes distant with him and Gwyn expects marriage. WhenHuw refuses to marry her, Gwyn throws him out of her house.