The Summer of the Spanish Woman by Catherine Gaskin. H/C. 444 pp. 1st1977

First published 1977 by Collins. Dust jacket in good condition with some wear at the edges and light staining on the back. Cloth-covered hardcover faded at edges. Foxing on top page edges. Inside pages immaculate. Binding sturdy.

A read as delicious as a box of chocolates.

Charlotte, known as Charlie, is the granddaughter of an Irish earl who brought a beautiful Spanish girl to his estate. Their brief romance was to shape the whole course of Charlie's life, for when her grandfather died, she and her mother inherited only a house in Andalucia and a small share in one of the great sherry wine cellars.