Listen Inside - Daily Book Previews From Readers In The Know By Simon Denman

Synopsis The Guardian of Secrets, an epic historical family saga, of love, war, and revenge, spanning four generations, from 1912, Kent, England to, Spain and its 1936–39 civil war.   In present day Spain, María Martinéz Merrill is dying, but welcomes the end of her long life. She is one of the last of her generation. A survivor of the Spanish Civil War; a hellish war, long ended but still lingering in her mind like the familiar caress of an old friend. When her granddaughter, Lucia, arrives for a visit, María finds the perfect opportunity to share her dark world filled with shocking family secrets, guarded in old journals and written decades before by María and her mother, Celia Merrill.   María forces herself to relive her tormented past in order to convince Lucia to veto the   sale of the family estate whilst her children plot behind closed doors to dismantle and destroy everything she has built... Excerpt It soon seemed that the whole of Madrid had upped sticks and moved camp to the Jarama valley. Fifty b