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Last Dance in Havana

Last Dance in Havana

Author(s): Rosanna Ley

Location(s): Bristol, Havana

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1950s and 2012

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Cuba, 1958. Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets Duardo and she knows he’s the love of her life from the moment they first dance the rumba together in downtown Havana. But Duardo is a rebel, determined to fight in Castro’s army, and Elisa is forced to leave behind her homeland and rebuild her life in distant England. But how can she stop longing for the warmth of Havana, when the music of the rumba still calls to her?

England, 2012. Grace has a troubled relationship with her father, whom she blames for her beloved mother’s untimely death. And this year more than ever she could do with a shoulderto cry on – Grace’s career is in flux, she isn’t sure she wants the baby her husband is so desperate to have and, worst of all, she’s begun to develop feelings for their best friend Theo. Theo is a Cuban born magician but even he can’t make Grace’s problems disappear. Is the passion Grace feels for Theo enough to risk her family’s happiness?

Here, Rosanna talks about her researches both in Cuba and Bristol

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For me this was a lovely way to visit the world of Havana, enter a time warp, be caught up the whirl of a new culture.

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