The Silk Pavilion

Author(s): Sarah Walton

Location(s): Deya (Deià)

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern looking back

Lucy is on assignment. A wild, reclusive writer awaits her. She wants his life story. He wants her everything. A whirlwind romance takes them to the highs and lows of Deià. But beneath them lie the bodies of a generation and as Lucy unearths the darkness, her own skeletons begin to rattle the closet.
Is she doomed to repeat the patterns of her childhood abuse? Can narcissists change their ways? And what is that tapping on Villa Rosa’s pipes?

‘Set in the small Spanish town of DeÌa and its beautiful Villa Rosa, Sarah Walton’s The Silk Pavilion weaves a compelling story around a young British woman and her controlling, narcissistic lover, Miguel Mateo Nadal. Using fact, fiction and the historical remnants of the Spanish Civil War, she succeeds in bringing us, with honesty and empathy, this vividly told story that reveals how the trauma inflicted in one’s childhood can distort the psyche, leading the individual into choosing, unconsciously, further abuse as an adult. Her novel reads like a thriller but is also very much a novel of one woman’s journey of self-discovery and survival. Contemporary, revenant and highly readable.  A brave and important book.’ Grace Nichols, winner of the Queen’s Medal for Poetry

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