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|title=Secrets of the Pomegranate

|author=Barbara Lamplugh

|reviewer=Rebecca Foster

|genre=General Fiction

|rating=4

|buy=Yes

|isbn= 9781781323694

|website= http://barbaralamplugh.com/

}}

Home in Bristol, Alice gets the news from her sister's partner, Paco. Her sister, Deborah Hardy, was on board one of the trains bombed at Madrid's Atocha station on 11 March. No one can yet confirm whether she is alive or dead. Deb had moved to Granada nearly 20 years ago, after her divorce from Mark's father, and was starting to make a name for herself as a scholar of women in Andalusia's history. Alice and her nine-year-old son Timmy fly to Spain to find that Deb is alive, but in a coma in hospital. Over the weeks she keeps vigil for Deb, Alice lives in her sister's home in Granada and reads her diaries, which proves to be a way of feeling closer to her and learning more about her than she ever knew. Meanwhile, Mark and Paco keep their distance, working through their complicated grief in their own ways.

Further reading suggestion: For more about the setting, we recommend [[Granada: The Light of Andalucia by Steven Nightingale]]. This novel would also lend itself to fans of Victoria Hislop's European-set fiction; you might try [[The Sunrise by Victoria Hislop|The Sunrise]].

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