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Daughters of Spain gives a gripping account of the hard won changes
within society for the women of Spain, through the eyes and
experiences of the women themselves. I first began to think about
writing this book in the late 1980s, when I lived in Spain for a
brief period. I was impressed by the way the Spanish women I met
had embraced the freedom of modern life in the short period since
the death of Spain's dictator General Franco, in 1975. However I
did nothing about it. The years went by and I began to realise that
if I didn't make a start soon, most of the women I wanted to
interview would be dead. So in 2007 I began to interview as many
women as I could; I began with friends, then they introduced me to
their mothers, aunts, neighbours and so it grew. I also read all
that I could lay my hands on about the Spanish Civil war and the
Franco era. The women I interviewed were from all walks of life and
spanned a wide range of ages. Because the interviews covered a
period of immense social change in Spain's recent history, I
decided to link them together with short commentaries on topics
such as divorce, abortion, contraception, domestic abuse and
education, thus putting them into context. The result is a mosaic
of their lives, a vivid and unique picture of what life was really
like for women in Spain over the past seventy years, of the
hardships they endured and their aspirations for a more egalitarian
future.
This evidence-based text relates clinical chiropractic management
to pediatrics, with coverage of the key aspects of syndromes most
commonly seen by chiropractors working with children. It outlines
the essential history-taking, physical assessment, diagnosis and
management for each syndrome, while addressing relevant pathology
of pediatric conditions. An essential reference source for both
chiropractic clinicians and students. Chapters have been radically
restructured for the new edition - in line with current research
and the models of teaching now being used.
'Spanish Lavender' is a love story set in the Spanish Civil War. In
January 1937, Elizabeth, a young English girl decides to remain in
Spain when the rest of her family return to the peace of England.
Alone in the devastated city of Malaga she makes friends with two
young men, Juan, an idealistic Spaniard and Alex, a pragmatic
Englishman. Together they make their escape from the war-torn city
along the coast to Almeria. Amongst the death and carnage she falls
in love with Juan, only to lose him shortly afterwards when he is
badly wounded. Believing he is dead she returns to England with
Alex, whom she later marries. Seventy years later Kate, Elizabeths
granddaughter, is left a legacy following the death of her
grandfather, a legacy that opens a Pandoras box of secrets and lies
which Kate can only unravel by returning to Spain.
This is the story of a city, a city that is now in ruins: Madinat
al Zahra. The year is 947 AD, a time when southern Spain is under
the rule of the Moors. The ruler, Caliph al Rahman III is rich,
powerful and cultured. His lands are, at long last, at peace and
the capital, Cordoba, is considered to be not only the most
beautiful city in the civilised world but also the seat of learning
and culture. Against this background we meet the artisan Qasim - he
and his family have moved to Madinat al Zahra to make their fortune
as potters. Qasim is a good husband and father. He works hard, says
his prayers and keeps out of trouble. But Qasim has a secret; his
past is not what it seems. When a stranger arrives asking questions
about him, he is worried that his secret will be discovered and
everything he has worked for will be destroyed. In the meantime,
unbeknown to Qasim, his youngest son, Omar meets and falls in love
with a slave girl who has been sold into the Caliph's harem. The
young man is obsessed with the thought of seeing this beautiful
woman again and breaks into the palace grounds to meet her. Omar's
infatuation with the slave girl has consequences that he could
never have foreseen, not only for himself but for all his family.
SANTIAGO TALES is a novel inspired by Chaucer s Canterbury Tales;
it is a twenty-first century version of this famous book and is set
on the Camino de Santiago, in northern Spain. Beth is a woman whose
life is falling apart; there are problems with her marriage, her
career is in the doldrums and her health is not good. She decides
she has to get away from it all and find some peace of mind, so she
embarks on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. As she walks the
five hundred miles across the north of Spain she is tested both
physically and emotionally. She reaches the depths of despair and
feels that her life is not worth living but gradually, through her
encounters with other pilgrims: a soldier injured in Afghanistan, a
woman who is looking for her lost son, a devout nun, a widower who
thinks his life is over and many others, she becomes stronger and
regains the will to live. Each pilgrim that she meets has a tale to
tell and everyone has some secret in their life. When she arrives
in Santiago de Compostela, five weeks later, she realises that the
journey has changed her in a way she never expected.
Imagine you are a twelve-year-old girl; you have a happy life and a
family that loves you, then bit by bit your life disintegrates and
you find yourself alone, thousands of miles from home. It is
September 1940, Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are
living in the East End of London with their parents. Their father
has been killed at Dunkirk and their mother goes into hospital to
have her fourth child, leaving the children with a neighbour. In
one of the worst bombing raids of the war their home is destroyed
and the neighbour is killed. Bewildered and frightened, the
children wander the streets until they are taken in by some nuns.
But their problems are not over; no-one can trace their mother and,
labelled as orphans, they are sent as child migrants to Australia.
The story traces their adventures in their new country, the
homesickness, the heartbreak when Billy is separated from his
sisters and the loneliness of life in a cold and unfeeling
orphanage. Eventually the children make new lives for themselves,
but Maggie is still convinced that her mother is alive and once she
is old enough, begins to search for her.
Fashion designer Margery Kane has been too busy climbing the career
ladder to sustain a long-term relationship - until she meets the
charming, charismatic Harry Wilkinson, and falls deeply in love for
the first time. There's only one problem: Harry is already married
to Barbara, a stay-at-home wife who's been content until now to
devote all her energies to looking after her husband and children.
The close-knit Wilkinson family unit is blown apart when Harry
leaves Barbara, deserting the family home to start a new life in
Spain with Margery. When Harry dies in strange circumstances,
Margery does not know what to tell his family. His children want to
evict her from the family home and the only weapon she has against
them is the fact that she has recently discovered that, throughout
their marriage, Harry and Barbara were keeping secrets from one
another. Now that Margery has discovered the truth from an
unexpected source, she has to decide whether to use this knowledge
to save her home, knowing the devastation it would cause, or
whether to let the past lie.
"The House on the Beach" is a novel set in the years after the
Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator Francisco
Franco. This is a time when women had little independence; they
were expected to lead prescribed lives, dominated by first their
fathers and then their husbands. Rocio and Inma first meet as
children. Despite coming from very different social backgrounds
they form a close friendship. Rocio is the daughter of an
Andalucian peasant, who makes his living from the land, growing
olives and keeping goats; Inma is the daughter of a rich
businessman, who lives and works in Madrid. The story follows the
lives of these two girls from childhood to maturity, as they share
happiness, fears, disappointments, broken hearts and betrayals.
Rocio is a shy and trusting girl, who becomes easily seduced by a
handsome foreigner, while Inma, confident and manipulative, is the
one who saves her from disgrace and the inevitable expulsion from
the family home. Inma, a university student, soon becomes involved
in student demonstrations and political subterfuge; all of which
she confides to Rocio. But when Inma too becomes pregnant, things
take a more sinister turn and her subsequent actions have a
devastating affect on Rocio and her husband. This social drama of
two women trying to take control of their lives, despite living
under a harsh dictatorship, offers a glimpse of what life was like
in an authoritarian State, with an ever watchful Catholic Church
and the close strictures of society.
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