Free (Kindle) Candle in the Sun by Marguerite Steen [1960s Spain COA Literary Drama]

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A Candle in the Sun by the late British author Marguerite Steen (Wikipedia), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature whose works enjoyed a period of popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, is her vintage literary fiction coming-of-age/family drama novel with f/m romantic elements retro-historically set in Granada, Spain, contemporary to the 1960s, centred around the teenaged daughter of eccentric parents, who strives to find happiness and balance in an unsteady world, even as her turbulent life experiences seem to parallel those of her elders, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Endeavour Press' Odyssey imprint.

This was originally published in 1964 by Longmans, Green & Co Ltd.

Currently free @ Amazon (available to Canadians & in the UK and pretty much everywhere else Amazon sells worldwide, since this is being done via their KDP Select exclusive-or-else program)

Description
In Granada with its sultry, sensuous atmosphere scandalous affairs are blossoming in the heat.

The wealthy Don Joaquin is conducting an affair with a married woman in an upper chamber of an inn owned by the colourful Florio, a man who has secrets of his own.

Flavia, aged fifteen, finds herself caught in a whirlpool of conflicting adult relationships: the love of her novelist father, George Ginever, for his American mistress; and her mother’s own infidelity, an off-beat love affair of a kind more difficult to understand.

The problem is for her parents — both devoted to Flavia — to find some solution to the warring emotions dominating their lives.

Further tension is created by the driving ambition of Flavia’s mother on behalf of George Ginever’s literary career — while George only desires to escape from the rat-race into his own private creative world.

Flavia’s problems run parallel to those of her parents: her attempts to find happiness in the circle of her friends and her own first love affair, touchingly reflect the bewilderment of her situation.

Flavia is an intelligent modern young girl striving to achieve mental and moral balance in an unsteady world; a world littered with retired bull fighters, itinerant actors and revolutionaries.

A Candle in the Sun is a stunning work of literary fiction set against the dusty and dreamy backdrop of southern Spain. It is in the tradition of the domestic novels (Anna Fitzalan, The Woman in the Back Seat, The Tower), which have contributed to Marguerite Steen’s established reputation as a novelist.