When Sonia visits Granada to take dancing lessons with her friend she meets and begins a friendship with an elderly cafe owner who begins telling her or Granada's shocking past. As the story unfolds, he begins to tell her of a family who owned the cafe and how they were devastated by the Spanish Civil war.
The second part of the story goes back in time and delves into each character with such depth that I shed more than a few tears while reading the book. Mother, Father, three brothers and a sister all changed forever by the devastating affects of the war.
Sonia listens enraptured, but there is so much more to the story as she is set to find out.
Brilliant, atmospheric and engrossing, I couldn't stop reading it. It was like looking at a colourful painting while reading. As Hislop describes the dancing, or the smells or the bull fighting you can practically touch the images they are so vivid. She describes things so well without boring the reader. I finished the book with a desperate urge to visit all the places she wrote about.
Another clear 10/10 
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