Marguerite Steen
ASIN: B01NABURJ1
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 203
‘fine scenes and piquant portraits’ - The Sunday Times In Granada with its sultry, sensuous atmosphere scandalous affairs are blossoming in the heat. The wealthy Don Joaquin is conducting an affair with a married woman in an upper chamber of an inn owned by the colourful Florio, a man who has secrets of his own. Flavia, aged fifteen, finds herself caught in a whirlpool of conflicting adult relationships: the love of her novelist father, George Ginever, for his American mistress; and her mother’s own infidelity, an off-beat love affair of a kind more difficult to understand. The problem is for her parents — both devoted to Flavia — to find some solution to the warring emotions dominating their lives. Further tension is created by the driving ambition of Flavia’s mother on behalf of George Ginever’s literary career — while George only desires to escape from the rat-race into his own ...