A Rose for Winter

– Travels in Andalusia –

“Andalusia is a passion – and fifteen years after his last visit, Laurie Lee returns.

He finds a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Virgin in agony, the thrilling flamenco wail … the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in grey slums, the glory in the horror of the bullfight, the exultation in death, the humour of hopelessness … the paradoxes deep in the fifty bones of Spain.”