Simone would take care of Stephen's son because that would somehow be a way of staying close to that passionate and remarkable time they had together in beautiful Cadaques. With all of that mystique, from those special Local Festivals to the ghoulish and mesmerizing Dance of Death When she had followed Stephen and his friends to Spain after meeting them in Paris, she had not wanted that life to come to an end, but when it did and she was lost. It was Stephen's best friend Hamish who did more than help in recovering her sanity. Since then, living at the estate Castello de Zancada Grandes,...

In the nineteen-eighties Mrs Margaret Thatcher's Government had a little help from the business sector with the implementation of crucial employment and training policies. In a deliberately mischievous and indirect way this book relates how non-government agents went about this work. But this is not a boring record of events. What the writer has done is to take a fictitious village community, with vibrant characterizations drawn from all levels of such a typical society. Laced with stories of country people's mostly innocent attempts at enterprise and innovation, and told with wry humour, the...