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Entertaining and emotional travelogue charting a young Englishman's voyage through the Flamenco underworld of Spain, taking in cocaine-fuelled nights with gypsies, blood-spilling sessions with his guitar teacher and a torrid affair with an older woman. "Jason Webster is an exceptional writer, and this is a great book" "The Guardian"
Synopsis
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads.