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Haunted by the past
Mark Nayler reading into spain
...an investigation into the legacy of Spain’s devastating civil war and its transition, after Franco’s death in 1975, to democracy - ironically pioneered by a king who Franco himself appointed as his successor. reading into spain Laurie Lee ... there, untended and only partially cured”. The village of Poyales del Hoyo in Ávila, where a local elderly woman named Obdulia recounts to him the horrific events of 29 December 1936, is at the centre of Tremlett’s investigation. It was on this night in