The Villa Quotes

“Memory was a strange creature. It was selective and it could play strange unexpected tricks. Sometimes it was impossible to untangle what had really happened from what you had wanted to happen, what you had dreamed of happening and what you had been told had happened. And yet you thought you knew …”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa

“Of seasons that go by and seasons that cannot lie.”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa

“The question you ask at the market is not how much, but how fresh …?”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa

“Eccentrics, Tess thought. From the Latin ex centro. Away from the centre, resistant to the centralising process that made everyone the same. It wasn’t easy to be eccentric, she concluded. To be brave enough. And she rather thought that she would have liked Edward Westerman.”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa

“Or as an antipasti – to undress the appetite. Hot and satisfying, crisp and succulent. A deep-fried Arab legacy.”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa

“Set between England and the Spanish Canary Islands, three women learn the truth about their shared past, and discover the importance of family. Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona.”
― Rosanna Ley, The Villa