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Small Wars in Madrid

Anthony Ferner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fairlight Books

Published:14th Mar '24

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David Aguilera's life is collapsing around him. After the catastrophic loss of the vessel under his command and a perilous trek across the Baltics to safety, he returns home to find himself unable to reconnect with his family. Frustrated by his inability to express what he is feeling, his wife Margalit moves out to stay with friends, taking their children with her. 

 As David anxiously awaits the official inquiry into his conduct, he turns to those who are most important to him - his closest friend and comrade Marce; his Catholic adoptive mother; his Jewish birth mother; and Margalit, herself Sephardi Jewish. Faced with the prospect of losing his family altogether, he must confront his conflicting identities and faiths and decide the man he wants to become.

'Small Wars in Madrid is a thoughtful novel about trauma, coming-to-self, and the sometimes inextricable links between such complex processes' -Ilana Masad, author of All My Mother's Lovers

'A captivating page-turner with a skillfully contstructed narrative. It's a story with real depth and empathy' -Fran Hill, author of Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean? and Cuckoo in the Nest

ISBN: 9781914148590

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

288 pages