The Adventures of Madeleine Tempest

by Catherine Kemp

Spanish blood flows through Maddy's veins, and she cherishes the memory of flamenco dancing on a beach with Kitto, a boy with a boat in Cornwall. Twenty years later she leaves her philanderer husband Rod and two grown-up children in London for a new life in Cornwall with her two youngest children, determined to rediscover her love of life and find the truth about the childhood secret that burdens her. "The haunting of a dark secret; the struggle to break free from marital subjugation, and a spiritual journey in which truth must be wrested from the grasp of illusion – these are the interwoven threads of a remarkable first novel that defies simple categorisation. Through naturalistic dialogue and intricate plotting the novel holds the reader's attention from the beginning of Maddy's crisis to the surprise ending in a world turned inside out."Hans Associate Professor of English Literature, retired, University go Gothenburg...."This is is a novel you won't want to put down – deeper than you first think! Enjoy this lovely read!"Mary G. Dolding, Macmillan Nurse, M.B.E.

349 pages, Paperback

Published February 8, 2019