I’m getting faster now. After the trip to the library I read this one almost without putting it down.
Carme Riera is a good writer and L’Estiu De L’Anglès is a black comedy – actually scary at times – about a woman who is desperate to learn English and goes to stay with a very eccentric teacher in an isolated house in England.  Soon she is speaking it well but only because her life depends on it!!

This by the way was my birthday breakfast in Estartit – eaten slowly while I read the last part of the book out loud. Apologies to those who hate to see a book lying like this – I’m too old to stop now!