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DescriptionThe Poet's Wife by Rebecca Stonehill English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 1909490512 | ISBN-13: 978-1909490512 September 25, 2014 | Bookouture   Literature & Fiction CONTENTS Copyright Dedication Epigraph Prologue 1. Luisa 2. Isabel 3. Luisa 4. Isabel 5. Luisa 6. Isabel 7. Luisa 8. Isabel 9. Luisa 10. Isabel 11. Luisa 12. Isabel 13. Luisa 14. Isabel 15. Paloma 16. Isabel 17. Luisa 18. Paloma 19. Isabel 20. Paloma 21. Isabel Epilogue Letter from Rebecca Acknowledgments A Q&A with Rebecca Stonehill Excerpt: LUISA SUMMER 1920 My daughter Isabel is born on a day of fire-breathing wind that gusts in hot, furious eddies through Granada. Rather than the heat dissipating by seven in the evening, it has gathered enough momentum and strength to power a steam engine and thus, my first labour is long and arduous. I fix my eyes upon the soaring cypresses and parched mountains through the open window whilst trying to control my breathing, loud exhalations punctuated by the sound of Eduardo thumping up and down the stairs. ‘Eduardo, por el amor de Dios, stay still!’ I scream between contractions, horrified to hear my profane use of the Lord’s name but powerless to prevent it. ‘I’m trying! What can I do?’ he cries through the closed door as his voice crescendos with panic. ‘Just tell me, por favor, what can I do?’ ‘I should like you to stop your pacing for a start and – Jesús!’ A shaft of pain tears through my body and as I double over the midwife mutters something about never before having heard such obscene language and, brushing her hands together announces the baby is on its way out. As I push and scream the name of every saint I can remember and strain my child into the world, I envisage the green-grey eyes of my husband on the other side of the door, the only man I have ever loved. Sharing Widget |