This book is a post-16 and/or independent learning Spanish GCSE textbook. It covers the basic ground well enough, while failing to challenge the learner, who, like me, is taking GCSE as the springboard to further quaifications. Its biggest problem is that the publisher no longer supplies the audio material to support the book. It is a cynical marketing ploy of Hodder (please supply whichever second name they are using at the moment) to sell the book at full price without the necessary support material.