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Although many English writers have opened windows on Spain none has done it so intimately or so personally as Lucia Graves. A book of high literary distinction and extraordinary humanity. -Times Literary Supplement. This beautifully nuanced memoir is a profound meditation on the three cultures-Spanish, English, and Catalan-that have shaped Lucia Graves's life and thought. It is also a complex portrait of Spain under Franco. The author explores the patterns of love, sacrifice, and forbearance that mark not only her own life but those of many other Spanish women she has known.

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Although many English writers have opened windows on Spain none has done it so intimately or so personally as Lucia Graves. A book of high literary distinction and extraordinary humanity. -Times Literary Supplement

Graves has inherited her father, poet Robert Grave's gift for limpid, sometimes elegiac prose. In this enchanting and very personal book she recalls her childhood on the island of Majorca and her life married to a Spaniard in Catalonia illuminating much of Spanish culture and post-war politics on the way. Her convent education and the earnest desire of the nuns to save her from hell by converting her to Catholicism is one of the many events that she describes with the detachment of a stranger and the understanding of a friend. Truly perceptive and affectionate memoir. (Kirkus UK)

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A writer, lyricist, and professional translator, Lucia Graves has published Spanish-language versions of the works of her father, Robert Graves, and of books by Katherine Mansfield and Anas Nin. She lives in London.

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