The author of Mercedes and the House of Rainbows describes a cherished childhood summer in Franco's Spain with his family's married cook and butler, recalling sunlight-drenched days spent in the company of much-loved parental substitutes....
It is the height of the French Revolution, and Robespierre has turned Paris into a city of suspicion and fear. Joseph Fouche, Robespierre's dreaded police commissioner, is a cold-blooded revolutionary whose loyalty to the regime has come into questio...