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The Spanish Promise

Karen Swan
Contents ( 44)
  1. KAREN SWAN
  2. Prologue
  3. Madrid, March 1937
  4. Chapter One
  5. Canary Wharf, London, 9 July 2018
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Ronda, Andalusia, August 1932
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Ronda, June 1936, four years later
  12. Chapter Six
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Ronda, June 1936, four days later
  16. Chapter Nine
  17. Chapter Ten
  18. Chapter Eleven
  19. Ronda, late June 1936
  20. Chapter Twelve
  21. Chapter Thirteen
  22. Chapter Fourteen
  23. Ronda, July 2018
  24. Chapter Fifteen
  25. Chapter Sixteen
  26. Madrid, 19 July 1936
  27. Chapter Seventeen
  28. Chapter Eighteen
  29. London
  30. Chapter Nineteen
  31. Madrid, November 1936
  32. Chapter Twenty
  33. Ronda, July 2018
  34. Chapter Twenty-One
  35. Madrid, February 1937
  36. Chapter Twenty-Two
  37. Chapter Twenty-Three
  38. Guadalajara, outside Madrid, March 1937
  39. Chapter Twenty-Four
  40. Chapter Twenty-Five
  41. Chapter Twenty-Six
  42. Epilogue
  43. Madrid, 12 March 1937
  44. Acknowledgements
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The Spanish Promise

Karen Swan is a Sunday Times Top Five bestselling writer. She is the author of fifteen other novels, although she’s been a writer all her life. She previously worked as an editor in the fashion industry but soon realized she was better suited as a novelist with a serious shopping habit. She is married with three children and lives in West Sussex.

Come to find her at www.karenswan.com, or Instagram @swannywrites, Twitter @KarenSwan1 and Facebook @KarenSwanAuthor.

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KAREN SWAN

MACMILLAN

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First published 2019 by Macmillan
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For Trish
With love and thanks for giving this writer such a beautiful view whilst writing this book

‘The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him’

G. K. Chesterton

Prologue

Madrid, March 1937

He stared back at her with eyes that burned like black stars, his hands hot around hers as they stood there, joined together. Just a solitary candle flickered, their faces draped with a pale golden light; no more than that could be risked for fear of being glimpsed from the street.