Paperback published by Clink Street 21st April 2022
The Spanish Girl is a love story, but one with an unexpected ending. Frank Walsh, a young teacher in 1980s London, is unhappily married to Rania, a young Guyanese girl who was a student in one of his English classes. Rania runs to Frank to escape from her overbearing Muslim family. She is also looking for a surrogate father, her biological father having died when she was a child.
Frank takes Rania in. However, he soon realises they are incompatible, their coexistence made unbearable by a clash of personalities and cultures. He feels trapped: he doesn’t have the heart to leave Rania, because it would mean sending her back to her oppressive family; it would also mean finding himself alone again.
While teaching on a summer school in Dublin, Frank falls in love with Ana, a Spanish girl in his class. He hopes Ana will be his escape route from his unhappy marriage. But his love for Ana hits a wall he never expected.
Then someone else unexpectedly comes into his life. He falls in love again, but it’s a love far more powerful than anything he has ever experienced or imagined before.
MY REVIEW
I wanted to read The Spanish Girl, because I visit Spain quite a lot. A beautiful novel that’s very well written. I could picture Frank Walsh a teachers falling in love with a Spanish Girl in Dublin, even though he is in an unhappy marriage. Chapter one was was my favourite as I really liked the conversation at the beginning of the book.
About author Eugene Vesey
Eugene Vesey was born and brought up in an Irish Catholic family in Manchester, where he attended Xaverian College, a Roman Catholic grammar school, until the age of eleven. (Then run by the Xaverian Brothers, not the Jesuits, as asserted in a TV documentary about Anthony Burgess some years ago.) He continued his education at Roman Catholic seminaries in the English Lake District and English Midlands, where he also studied philosophy and theology. He graduated with an honours degree in English language and literature from the University of Manchester and obtained a postgraduate certificate in education from the University of Liverpool. He lives and works in London, where he has taught English as a foreign language to adults in colleges for many years. For many years he also taught on English language summer schools in Trinity College, Dublin. Apart from writing, he enjoys reading (fiction, fact, poetry), listening to music (especially Irish folk music), studying classical languages, gardening, walking and watching Manchester United. He has published four novels and two volumes of poetry. You can contact Eugene at eugenekvesey@gmail.com and find him on Facebook or Twitter @VeseyEugene or on his Amazon Author Central page, where you can find a list of all the books he has had published. I would like to thank
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