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Encarnita's Journey (Hardcover)

by Joan Lingard (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby (29 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749082801
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749082802
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 911,718 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'Joan Lingard knows how to assemble the ingredients for an exciting read' Chris Dolan - Glasgow Herald 'The narrative is exquisitely constructed, plunging the reader into the heart of the action' David Robson - The Sunday Telegraph"


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The renowned children's author successfully turns her hand to adult literary fiction. It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year. The wild flowers, poppies, lavender, rosemary and thyme fill the air with their enchanting scent as the setting sun streaks vivid bands of pink and purple across the sky. For years Yegen's small community has continued in its own quiet way, knowing little of the outside world. But the arrival of Gerald Brenan, the British writer, and his string of artistic and literary visitors, brings a new excitement to the sultry town. But Gerald is not the only new arrival; in a dusty stable a child is born. With her dark hair and wide, soot-black eyes, the young Encarnita was as beautiful as she was serious. Growing up in Yegen, with the reflective Virginia Woolf, witty Lytton Strachey and other Bloomsbury group friends of Don Geraldo visiting the village regularly, Encarnita learned many stories. But after the passing of eighty years and many miles, there is still one tale left to tell...Exquisitely written, "Encarnita's Journey" is a tale as beautiful as its Spanish setting, with touches of true insight into the lives of its literati cast and dark-eyed heroine. Accompany Encarnita from Yegen to Scotland's bustling capital, and be filled with wonder every step of the way.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spanish tale is Lingard at height of her storytelling powers, 7 Nov 2005
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Gerald Brenan and Laurie Lee figure high in the ranks of British authors who have fired the imagination of generations with accounts of Spanish life in earlier decades of the twentieth century.

Brenan’s South from Granada, and Lee’s As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, captured the passions, joys and sorrows of the country in the 1920s and 30s. They move some modern readers to make literary pilgrimages to Brenan’s Alpujarras, the valley bounded northwards by the Sierra Nevada, and Lee’s Almuñécar, the Granada province seaside resort.

Pilgrims in recent years include Joan Lingard, the Scottish writer whose fascination with Brenan, and the child he sired by a village maid, led to the Alpujarran pueblo of Yegen becoming the cradle of Lingard’s latest novel.

Encarnita’s Journey is a compelling saga woven around one Spanish woman’s life, from the Yegen of Brenan days, via Lee’s Almuñécar in the shadow of the civil war, to the latterly prosperous resort of Nerja.

It works on all levels – as a good yarn, as a novelisation of history involving literary figures including Brenan and members of the Bloomsbury set who visited Yegen, as a mini-chronicle of modern Spanish history, and as a monument to the lives of Spanish women over eight tumultuous decades.

Encarnita’s journey, geographically and metaphorically, is fired by Brenan teaching her a little English and about the wider world beyond the village. It is a life affirming tale of how a small act of kindness inspires a quest that is delayed by extraordinary circumstances but remains unextinguished until the final act can be played out.

Best known for her children’s books, including Tell The Moon to Come Out, which also climaxes in Nerja, Lingard is nevertheless one of the most satisfying writers of novels which weave past and present. She spends part of the winter in Nerja each year, hence her interest in the area's regional history.

This is the work of a craftswoman at the peak of her storytelling and researching powers.

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