It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of
the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year and two events that are to
change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, a beautiful
dark-eyed girl; and the arrival of the British writer Gerald Brenan
and his string of artistic and literary visitors, including Virginia
Woolf, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington.
Growing up in Yegen, and taught English by Brenan, the beautiful
Encarnita longs for the world outside the small pueblo - the stories
Brenan and his friends tell her spark her imagination. And so begins
her long journey, from the Sierra to Edinburgh, where eighty years
after her birth, she will have one last story to tell. Exquisitely
written, Encarnita's Journey is a tale as beautiful as its
Spanish setting, with touches of true insight into the lives of its
literati cast and dark-eyed heroine.
