As their relationship blossoms, Willa must endeavor to keep her new love a secret. Frequent letters from Tommy fail to evoke the emotion that she now feels for Richard. Richard, a charming and intelligent young writer, is an exciting new addition to Willa’s life. Through regular visits to the library she meets a man with a mutual fascination, Richard Fitzwilliam. Struggling to cope with the tedium and oppression of life without him, Willa’s only escape is through the books she reads. Her husband, Tommy, a navy officer, is away on a year long world cruise with the Special Service Squadron. Willa, a polite and respectable young woman, lives in a small Edinburgh flat with her baby and mother in law. Accompany Encarnita from Yegen to Scotland s bustling capital, and be filled with wonder every step of the way. 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 hero*ine. 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. With her dark hair and wide, soot black eyes, the young Encarnita was as beautiful as she was serious. But Gerald is not the only new arrival in a dusty stable a child is born. 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. For years Yegen’s small community has continued in its own quiet way, knowing little of the outside world. 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. It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year. The Second Flowering of Emily Mountjoy (1979).
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