Learning To Lose

Set in contemporary Madrid against the backdrop of its congested and contested streets, this novel weaves together the stories of three generations of a Spanish family and a talented young footballer just arrived from Buenos Aires. The novel opens with a series of dramatic events - a violent murder, a traffic accident, and the discovery of an illness - that sends each family member swerving off in an unexpected direction. Guilt, purity, the search for happiness, love and, above all, survival form the spider's web which binds the characters together and holds the reader fast.