Talking Location With … Rob Starr: SOUTH AFRICA
My Cousin’s Cousin

Location(s): Spain, Canada
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1950s-to present day
My Cousin’s Cousin follows the lives of playboys Emil and Rafael whose carefree existence is disrupted by the arrival of their much younger cousin Ino. Over the next few years, the seemingly glamorous lives of all three will change irrevocably. Misunderstandings abound in this tale of star-crossed lovers ultimately resulting in tragedy. Themes of alcoholism and domestic abuse are explored alongside the pull of ancestral homes. The characters crisscross continents from Canada to South America, Spain and England fleeing from trauma to make sense of the past and find the resolution they all crave.
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