"This is an evocative story of survival during the Franco period of Spain’s turbulent history. It is a story of the aftermath of war, and how ordinary people coped with that aftermath."
Family drama/romance
1900s / Spanish Civil War
Spain
“When Rose, a young English nurse
with humanitarian ideals, decides to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, she is
little prepared for the experiences that await her. Working on one front after
another, witness to all the horrors of war, she falls in love with a Republican
fighter, Miguel. In 1939 as defeat becomes inevitable, Rose is faced with a
decision that will change her life and leave her with lasting scars. Interspersed
with Rose's story is that of Consuelo, a girl growing up in a staunchly
Catholic family on the other side of the ideological divide. Never quite
belonging, treated unkindly, she discovers at a young age that she was adopted
but her attempts to learn more about her origins are largely thwarted. It falls
to the third generation, to Consuelo's daughter Marisol, born in the year of
Franco's death and growing up in a rapidly changing Spain, to investigate the
dark secrets of her family and find the answers that have until now eluded her
mother.”
Rose gets caught up in the horror and the violence of the Spanish Civil War, with the narrative featuring several
generations of two families, English and Spanish, with their lives mingling
together through circumstance and Rose herself.
This is an evocative story of
survival during the Franco period of Spain’s turbulent history. It is a
story of the aftermath of war, and how ordinary people coped with that
aftermath. We meet romance, tragedy, love and fear, loyalty and betrayal. Ms
Lamplugh’s writing is as evocative as the cast of characters that are set
against this broad, even epic, sweep of time and place. But more than that, this
is a tale of motherhood and family, action, yes, adventure, yes but overall the
importance of family.
© Mary Chapple
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