The Rocks

I admit it: I bought this book for the cover, and the promise of a 400-page summer holiday in Mallorca.  it’s a multi-generational story of love and regret, told over several decades.  Through the reverse chronology narrative, the characters are propelled toward a fate that seems inevitable – but is in fact shaped by choices that affect everything thereafter.

Such gorgeous descriptions of coastal Spanish food! And of olive and lemon trees that were more loved and well-tended than any of the book’s (often deplorable) characters. Pictured here: seafood paella, much like one from a cafe near Los Roques.