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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