MacDonald, Anthony

Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet

This impressive debut novel is set in Seville in Spain during the mid-Seventies, just after the end of the repressive Franco regime, a period of great change. Focusing on the intertwined relationships of six young people of various nationalities and sexual persuasions, "Orange Bitter, Orange Sweet" is a romantic novel about love, frustration and betrayal. At once engrossing, comic and ultimately, infinitely touching this is a story of life in a newly liberal culture.