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Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings

Author(s): Belinda Alexandra

Location(s): Barcelona, Paris

Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery

Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

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Let me tell you a story…The granddaughter of Spanish refugees, who fled Barcelona after the Civil War, Paloma Batton is an attentive student of the Paris Opera Ballet, that is, until she is visited by a ghost …Leaving her a mysterious gift – a pair of golden earrings – the ghost disappears, setting Paloma off on a quest. Paloma’s exploration of her Spanish heritage, leads to a connection between the visitor and ‘la Rusa’, a woman who died in Paris in 1952, known for her rapid rise from poverty to flamenco star. Although her death was ruled a suicide, Paloma soon discovers that many people had reasons for wanting la Rusa dead…including Paloma’s own grandmother. Golden Earrings travels between Barcelona: before the Civil War, and Paris in the 1970s. It is a story of passion and betrayal, and the extremes two women will go to for love. Nothing is ever quite as it seems…

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Has everything I love – history, two cities I love, dancing and a bit of mystery – Teresa Gomez

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