Midwinter Turns to Spring

 Midwinter Turns to Spring

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       May 20, 2022

 

Author  Maria Veloso

Distributor:      Netgalley
ISBN:                 9780989678148
Publisher:         Think-Outside-The-Book December 2005. Reprint March 2022.
Release Date:   March 2022  

   Website:   https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/253036

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Beautifully romantic and poignant, Midwinter Turns to Spring is an unforgettable romance that will capture the heart and emotions as the pages turn. Hard to put down once begun, Maria Veloso captures the deep and abiding love between two people that was to last a lifetime, despite some very huge obstacles placed in their way.

Alphonso Madrigal attends a lecture on Picasso given by Savannah Curtis, a fine art consultant and specialist. He is disturbed by something about her that he can’t work out. He asks her after the lecture about a painting, and a hand painted tambourine that he has owned for many years, given to him by his beloved grandmother, said to have been painted by Picasso in his youth, using the name Ruiz.

So begins an enchanting story that sees a flamenco player and a fine art specialist fall into a deep, passionate and abiding love, that may have remained as a passionate moment in time except for Cassidy, a young Law graduate renting the apartment that had been Savannah Curtis’s many years ago.

She finds two journals which capture her innate sense of curiosity and sets out to discover more about the two people so in love. What happened to them and where are they now.

This decision leads to the unexpected and eventually to Cassidy finding a new pathway in her own life.

Veloso’s descriptive turn of phrase and language is something that is seldom seen in novels in modern times, but as the story segues between the past and present, the metre used is perfect to describe the power of love, music and an integral spirituality.

Midwinter Turns to Spring was first published in 2005 and is now about to enchant to a new audience once again.

Fiction, Romance